“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Rainer Maria Rilke176
Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926Related quotes
“Most people live in a half-dream all their lives and call it reality.”
John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis (25 July 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
Source: Images: My Life in Film
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest…”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
As quoted in Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg, p. 3
“All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 November 1990)
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)