Jean Rhys Quotes

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

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

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

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.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

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

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

We're all a little tired.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.