Antonin Artaud Quotes

But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

To be awake is everything.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.