Quotes About Waking

She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.

and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.

Dormía mucho, sin sueños, y casi siempre se arrepentía de despertarse. Dormida, todo desaparecía.

As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence, thereby serving as a ground from which to respond more openly and vitally to whatever occurred.

Our dream is parallel to the realitySlumber's one platform for perpendicularityBut it always went contrary to the plan takenWaking us from sleep to sleep back again

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. • KAREN BLIXEN, Out of Africa

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

There's nothing more depressing than waking up in your shoes.

Where's all that annoying early-morning cheerfulness you're usually so full of?" "Well, maybe if you hadn't woken me up by dropping a fish on my head

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

four o'clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He

For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.

There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.

Sometimes I would wake up in the night saying, 'Take the case of the Caodaists.' Or the Hoa-Haos or the Binh Xuyen, all the private armies who sold their services for money or revenge.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning The ginger lady by my bed Covered in a cloak of silence I hear you talking in my head

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

Hello, Presley residence." "Mrs. Presley, this is Dallas Memorial. I have—" Penny started to weep. "Oh my God, he's dead, isn't he?" "No, no, Mrs. Presley. Quite the contrary. The doctor wanted you to know that we think your husband is waking up." Penny's emotions shuddered to a stop. Not dead? Not dead after all? Waking up? What the hell was all this about?

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.