Bad Dreams
"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams." – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up." [...]
Butterfly
"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly." – Andre Gide
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a [...]
Daydream
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." – William Dement
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." – Edgar Allan Poe
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same [...]
Eyes
"My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected." – Anna M. Uhlich
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." – Sylvia Plath
"A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close [...]
Individuality
"Be yourself. The world worships the original." – Ingrid Bergman
"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself." – Ralph Waldo
"To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else– means to fight the hardest battle [...]
Insomnia
"It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to [...]
Listening
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us, and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star." – Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." [...]
Seed
"'What is a human being, then?' 'A seed.' 'A… seed?' 'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree'" – David Zindell, The Broken God
"You never know how many apples there are in a seed." – Unknown
"What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A [...]
