Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

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

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

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

None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m going to wake up and find everything fixed with Lissa and Dimitri. We’ll all be together, and he’ll be there to smile and hold me and tell me everything ‘s going to be okay. Maybe all of this really has been a dream. But I don’t think so.

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

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

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

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

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

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

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

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Everything is only a dream.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.