1.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Black Elk
2.
There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
Marva Collins
3.
Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
Idris Elba
4.
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
Eric Berne
5.
I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?
Grace McCleen
7.
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
Nikolai Gogol
8.
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise M. Boulding
9.
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
Sigmund Freud
10.
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
Thomas Nagel
11.
We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.
Hamza Yusuf
12.
Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do
Daymond John
13.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks
14.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller
15.
The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!
Paul Stanley
16.
But I cannot forget that,
at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions;
and,
attentively considering those cases,
I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep,
that I feel greatly astonished;
and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
Rene Descartes
17.
The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
18.
If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.
Saul Williams
19.
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
Oliver Sacks
20.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
W. H. Auden
21.
I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
Lenny Bruce
22.
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
Richard Linklater
23.
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.
Alex Garland
24.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
Carl Jung
25.
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
Sam Harris
26.
Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.
Tarthang Tulku
27.
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Edna Ferber
29.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
Sakyong Mipham
31.
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
George Eliot
33.
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Virginia Woolf
34.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis
35.
Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
Rod Stryker
36.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
Robert A. Heinlein
37.
What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?
Louis Mackey
38.
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Walter Scott
40.
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
Jack Smith
41.
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
Casey Affleck
42.
Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
Thomas Hobbes
43.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela
44.
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter
45.
After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.
Jordi Molla
46.
When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.
Jena Malone
47.
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
Charles Saatchi
49.
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
Idries Shah
50.
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Paul Newman