Dreamlike Quotes

“You are the door of the doorless rooms.”

— Emir Demirkiran

“Dreamlike it was, and yet no dream, for there was no waking.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him”

— Orson Scott Card

'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“To Alick, Shaylee looked like an exotic angel.”

— J.L. Marrain

“This dreamlike logic hung over the entire afternoon.”

— J.G. Ballard

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

— Curtis Hanson

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in…

— David Chase

“And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ”

— Haruki Murakami

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very…

— Bryan Fuller

Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel…

— Adam Morris

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures,…

— Albert Hofmann

“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center…

— James Lasdun

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with…

— Susan Rowland

“What happened after that had a dreamlike quality: in a dream I saw the jury return, moving like underwater swimmers, and Judge…

— Harper Lee

I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.

— Philipp Meyer

“Now that he was near her, this sighing of the human skin took on a dreamlike quality like the spell of the…

— Yasunari Kawabata

Sometimes dreamlike experiences can feel like distancing, or like it is all in your subconscious.

— Greta Lee

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

— Tarthang Tulku

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at…

— Christopher Alexander