Terence McKenna Quotes

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

Nothing in this world is real

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Life, what is it but a dream?

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

Nothing is real.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

That which is cannot be true.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.