Quotes about dreams page 11
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) Yiddish author and playwright
“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”
Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters
Source: The Sea of Monsters
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Darkness http://readytogoebooks.com/Lb-Drk85.htm, line 1 (1816).
“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“Clovis,’ Nico growled, ‘for the gods’ sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Nathaniel Hawthorne book Young Goodman Brown
Source: "Young Goodman Brown"
Context: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
“Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars”
Catherine Fisher book Incarceron
Source: Incarceron
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
1810s
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Quote in Avant et Après, (1903); taken from Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, trans. (1923) Van Wyck Brooks [Dover, 1997, ISBN 0-486-29441-2], p. 2
1890s - 1910s
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, «There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
“Dreams are what keep a man going.”
Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Source: Big Fish
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Though Kennedy stated that he was quoting George Bernard Shaw when he said this, he is often thought to have originated the expression, which actually paraphrases a line delivered by the Serpent in Shaw's play Back To Methuselah: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’". This phrase was first used by his brother John F. Kennedy in 1963 (June 28th), during his visit to Ireland, in his address to the Irish Dail (Government): "George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life, 'Other people, he said, see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?" ( Address on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADeazX9blw.). Robert's other brother Edward famously quoted it (paraphrasing it even further), to conclude his eulogy to his late brother after his assassination (8 June 1968): Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? - (Eulogy in CBS news video) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5268061n <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years
“All our dreams begin in youth.”
Heinrich Harrer book Seven Years in Tibet
Source: Seven Years in Tibet
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.
“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Preface to Dr. Brodie's Report [El informe de Brodie] (1970)
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
Jack Kerouac book The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
George Sterling (1869–1926) American poet and playwright
Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Variant: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“a dream is only a memory of the future”
Steve Erickson (1950) novelist, essayist, film critic
J. Sheridan Le Fanu book Carmilla
Variant: Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Source: Carmilla
“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”
Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams
Source: A Kingdom of Dreams
“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”
James Frey Bright Shiny Morning
Source: Bright Shiny Morning
“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”
Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer
Source: Yours Until Dawn
Carolyn Parkhurst The Dogs of Babel
Source: The Dogs of Babel
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
“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
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
Michel Onfray (1959) French philosopher
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: An Offer From a Gentleman
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Lair of Dreams
