The 20 Best What Dreams May Come Quotes - Bookroo

BookrooBook ClubsShop BooksBook RegistrySign inbookWhat Dreams May Come Quotes20 of the best book quotes from What Dreams May Come01“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebooksleepingᐧdreamsᐧworldᐧrealconcepts02“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookheavenᐧneverᐧbeingᐧliving withoutᐧromanceᐧfriendshipconcepts03“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookdaily livesᐧfeelingsᐧmorningsᐧbeing contentᐧawakeningᐧterrorᐧsleepingᐧdeathᐧlifeᐧmenconcepts04“Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookunfulfilledᐧfailureᐧthingsᐧignoreᐧneglectᐧlifeconcepts05“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookthank youᐧgracingᐧloveᐧlifeᐧromanceᐧlovelyᐧbeingᐧexistenceconcepts06“What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookimaginationᐧlifeᐧobjectivityᐧfantasyᐧrealityᐧwitnessconcepts07“Even though they fought, their fighting never turned them against each other. It always ended with them embracing and kissing, smiling, laughing.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebooklifeᐧturned againstᐧfightᐧkissingᐧsmilingᐧlaughingᐧembracing strugglesconcepts08“That which you believe becomes your world.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookbelievingᐧfactsᐧlifeᐧworldᐧbecomeconcepts09“Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebooksuicideᐧdarknessᐧsame conditionsᐧescapeᐧcircumstancesᐧpainfulᐧlifeconcepts10“When matter is put aside, all creation becomes exclusively mental, that’s all.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebooklifeᐧmentalᐧbecomeᐧcreationᐧpersonal mattersᐧhard livesconcepts11“It’s a time when men and women come to know what they truly are. A time of purging.” I’d been looking at the ceiling as he spoke. At his final words, I turned to face him in surprise. “Is that what the Catholics mean by purgatory?” “In essence.” He nodded. “A period during which each soul is cleansed by a self-imposed recognition of past deeds—and misdeeds.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookpast deedsᐧdeedsᐧtrueᐧtime of purgingᐧperiodᐧselfᐧrecognitionᐧmisdeedsᐧmenᐧwomenconcepts12“Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookdeathᐧlifeᐧbeing rationalᐧavoidanceᐧbringingᐧmemoryconcepts13“…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit.Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebooksuicideᐧquick routeᐧescapeᐧaltersᐧnothingᐧdestroyingᐧspiritsᐧlifeconcepts14“All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookbeginningᐧfollowingᐧpathsᐧlifeᐧearthconcepts15“Everything is mental,”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookeverythingᐧmentalᐧlifeᐧthinkingconcepts16“Anyone who couldn’t understand that what’s important is a man’s soul, not the color of his skin, would never be content here.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookanyoneᐧunderstandingᐧimportant thingsᐧcolor of skinᐧcontentmentᐧlifeconcepts17“People are not punished for their deeds but by them”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookpunishmentᐧdeedsᐧlifeᐧdeathᐧpeopleconcepts18“What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookself-pretenseᐧlifeᐧhard livesᐧcondemnationᐧpossibleᐧharshᐧselfconcepts19“There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.”Richard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookfutureᐧgrowingᐧremainᐧriseᐧheightsᐧappearanceᐧdevotionᐧeternityᐧlifeconcepts20“Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrenceRichard MathesonauthorWhat Dreams May Comebookrediscoverᐧbloodᐧthe mindᐧfulfilledᐧdesiresᐧunfulfilledᐧlifeᐧexperiencesconcepts

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