Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Man is what his dreams are.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.