A Quote by Sigmund Freud

The madman is a dreamer awake

Sigmund Freud

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Awake Dreamer Madman

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Sigmund Freud
Austrian - Psychologist
May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Frederic Henry Hedge

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.

Neil Gaiman

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

William Shakespeare

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

Eckhart Tolle

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Siri Hustvedt

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Samuel Richardson

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

Ajahn Chah

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

Fernando Pessoa

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Carson McCullers

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

Aleksandr Karelin

A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart