Saul Williams Quotes

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

That which is cannot be true.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Nothing in this world is real

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

The illusion is we are only physical.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.