Mardy Grothe Quotes

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

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.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.