Jack Kerouac Quotes

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

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

Life, what is it but a dream?

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

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

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

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

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?'

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.

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

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

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.

Everything is only a dream.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

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?

Life is but a dream for the dead.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

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