Waking may refer to:
- Waking up, emerging from sleep
- Waking (band), an alternative rock band
- The Waking, a poem written by Theodore Roethke
Famous quotes containing the word waking:
“You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“They are not sleeping, but even if they were fast asleep, I’d respect their dreams more than your waking thoughts.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else.... All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)