Rod Serling Quotes

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.