This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. — Rumi

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Who said it: Rumi
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This is a contemporary popular rendering of Rumi — beloved, widely shared, and considerably freer than the classical translations of his Persian.

Rumi (1207–1273) composed the Masnavi and the Divan-e Shams in Konya. For sourced, public-domain translations see the Masnavi quotes on this site.