Northrop Frye Quotes

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

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

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

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

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

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

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

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.