“What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.”
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, book Hagakure
Hagakure (c. 1716)
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“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream.”
Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Context: It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.
“You tell yourself a dream, always. And when do you dream it?”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Voces (1943)
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
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
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
"The Superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday; a Novel of Real Life" (1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2