Erin Morgenstern Quotes

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

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.

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.