“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Source: Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: Nestor
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James Joyce 191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“I see nightmares when I sleep and I dream about you when I'm awake.”
This quote is from "Pink" by "Rymin" and the original words are in Persian.
Source: https://soundcloud.com/rymiin/pink
Variant: I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Nice try?” Butters said. “Mister, where I come from, there is no try.”
Source: Skin Game
Source: My Autobiography (p. 271 Simon and Schuster 1964 edition)
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts to find moral excuses. To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
