“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
Source: Death of Kings
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“Just as we suffer from excess in all things, so we suffer from excess in literature; thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”
Quemadmodum omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus: non vitae sed scholae discimus.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Alternate translation: Not for life, but for school do we learn. (translator unknown)
Alternate translation: We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life. (translator unknown).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVI: On the corporeality of virtue, Line 12
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.”
Jeffrey Archer book A Prisoner of Birth
Source: A Prisoner of Birth
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).
Karl Popper book Conjectures and Refutations
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963), p. 485