Andre Breton Quotes

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

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

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

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.

I do dream. I mean, I must every night, right? But I only remember a couple a year.

I'm drawn to dreams.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.