Novalis Quotes

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.