Joe Rogan Quotes

Every day is bizarre.

'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Life is surreal and beautiful.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."