“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
Variant: Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980Related quotes
“All the time it's a changing
And all the dreamers are waking.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
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Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
"Free Hope" p. 127.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
“Truth has been confused. Simplicity refused.”
Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician
"Love Strong"
The Poets And The Prophet (2006)
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 9
“I never meant to be but a dreamer.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Nunca pretendi ser senão um sonhador.
“Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books