“Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts.”

—  Adolfo Bioy Casares

"Más exclusivamente que en la vigilia, en el sueño somos nosotros. Contribuimos con todo el reparto."
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts." by Adolfo Bioy Casares?
Adolfo Bioy Casares photo
Adolfo Bioy Casares16
Argentine novelist 1914–1999

Related quotes

Ruth Rendell photo

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”

Ruth Rendell One Across, Two Down

Source: One Across, Two Down

Virginia Woolf photo

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

Ram Dass photo

“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”

Sidney Sheldon book The Sands of Time

Source: The Sands of Time

Joss Whedon photo

“Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Carlos Ruiz Zafón photo

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Section 1.3
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

Learned Hand photo

“We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.”

Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge

"A Fanfare for Prometheus" (29 January 1955).
Extra-judicial writings

Lynda Gratton photo

“We are more likely to love our work when we see it as play.”

Lynda Gratton (1953) Business theorist

The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here, 2011

“We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Related topics