Jodi Picoult Quotes

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

As 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.

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

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

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.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

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.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

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.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'