Waking Life famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Premie'Â re approximation: j'eÂ cris pour deÂ truire, en les deÂ crivant avec preÂ cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie eÂ veilleÂ e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet

#Writing #Monsters #Waking Life
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing
-- Bo

#Waking Life #Doe #Half
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
-- George Santayana

#Dream #And Love #Waking Life
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
-- Jim Woodring

#Jobs #Thinking #Waking Life
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
-- Laurie Lee

#Years #Kitchen #Waking Life
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
-- Lewis Mumford

#Buttons #Waking Life #Tasks
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
-- Rene Magritte

#Dream #Art #Waking Life

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.
Prisons are the universities of the opposition.
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
Whatâ€™s broken, and how do we fix it?
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.