James Armstrong > James's Quotes

“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
― Arthur Machen, The Terror

“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer

“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed”
― Algernon Blackwood The Willows

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe