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Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. — Paulo Coelho

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. — David Marusek

There are few things in life that are worth waking up to: sex, the dark spices of freshly brewed coffee and bacon. — Dannika Dark

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work. — Romain Grosjean

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams. — Plato

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. — Noah Levine

Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. — Sophocles

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up. — Alice Walker

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen. — Shannon L. Alder

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought. — John Keble

Good works begin with praise, worship, and honoring and exalting of God as the temper of one's whole waking life. — J.I. Packer

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. — Angela Carter

I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge — Jeremy Aldana

Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'. — Ka Chinery

Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor. — Tiziano Scarpa

But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self. — Sam Harris

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. — Rene Magritte

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality. — Tony Blair

Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life. — John Scalzi

They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then — Robert E. Howard

I live my life inside a dream,
only waking when I sleep — Marina And The Diamonds

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? — Henry David Thoreau

By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life. — Charles McPhee

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for. — Mira Lyn Kelly

My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours. — Anna Lyndsey

There's nothing more uplifting like the joy of waking up every morning knowing your family is safe from the perils of our society". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

And all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her — Nicholas Sparks

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life. — Wendell Berry

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger

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

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. — Thomas Browne

Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it. — Sarah Manguso

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life. — Leonard Jacobson

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other. — Johanna Paungger

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. — Heraclitus

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking. — Veronica Rossi

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know. — Tove Jansson