“Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream”

“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”

“And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,How if our waking life, like that of sleep,Be all a dream in that eternal lifeTo which we wake not till we sleep in death”

“The young need their sleep and their dreams; only we who are old dream best when we are awake. ”

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”

“We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams...Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.”