„Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary.“
— W. H. Auden
„If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.“
— René Magritte
„Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,If One wake at Morn —If One wake at Midnight — better —Dreaming — of the Dawn“
— Emily Dickinson
„I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.“
— Haruki Murakami
„The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.“
— Stephen King
„The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.“
— Paul Valéry
„Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?“
— John Keats