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Quotes About Waking

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
~ Gene Perret
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.
~ George Byron
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
~ George Eliot
If only one could believe that death was waking up.
~ Iris Murdoch
The dread enactment of the dream had turned into a waking horror.
~ Iris Murdoch
He wished he was not always young again in his dreams, it made waking up so sad.
~ Iris Murdoch
You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.
~ Isaac Asimov
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
~ Ivy ComptonBurnett
Heaven is just on the other side of waking . . . I can feel the canopy lifting, and I am not afraid . . . Look! Can you see it? It's so beautiful! Look! So beautiful!
~ Susan Meissner
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
~ Suzanne Collins
You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
~ Suzanne Collins
I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A
your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.
~ Sanober Khan
The time a man wakes up is his morning.
~ Chinua Achebe
It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
~ Tom Robbins
Theta waves are associated with drowsy, meditative, or sleeping states. Yet in psychopaths, they occur during normal waking states, even sometimes during states of increased arousal.
~ Kevin Dutton
Of course, we are a little proud and very happy for whatever good we have been able to do in waking people up to the peril of collectivism and the importance of Freedom under God." But the battle was far from won. "I do not consider that we can relax our efforts in any way or at any point," Fifield noted. "It is still a long road back to what was and, please God, will again be America.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
She had never met a woman from the waking world. Once she asked Carter about it. "Women don't dream large dreams," he had said, dismissively. "It is all babies and housework. Tiny dreams." Men said stupid things all the time, and it was perhaps no surprise that men of the waking world might do so as well, yes she was disappointed in Carter.
~ Kij Johnson
He's not from Ulthar. I thought I said: he was special. He's from the waking world. That's where he's taking her.
~ Kij Johnson
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.
~ Carol Shields
What woke him was a subconscious awareness of atmospheric change. The billowing curtains over his east windows looked like a fat ghostly intruder.
~ Carolyn Weston
He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
~ George R.R. Martin
It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.
~ George R.R. Martin