David Almond Quotes

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

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

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

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

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

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

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

Truth is always a delusion.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.