Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

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

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

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

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

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

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

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.

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

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

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

We wake from one dream into another dream.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.