“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
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John Steinbeck366
American writer 1902–1968Related quotes
“We should never be afraid of our dreams, but only of who doesn’t want to make us dream.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Dario, Act III, scene iV.
Theater Quotes
“The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
“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)
“Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
Maxim 298, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life the best. (189)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño;
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.
Variant:
What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
(trans. Roy Campbell)
Segismundo, Act II, l. 1195.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Source: See You at the Top
