Quotes about dreams

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“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”

“We live as we dream--alone….”

“Dreams are the language of God.”

“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

“In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.”

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.”

“For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.”

“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”

“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."

"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.”

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”

“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope….”

“Clovis,’ Nico growled, ‘for the gods’ sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!”

“Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.”

“Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

“Dreams are necessary to life.”

“They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.”

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

“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.”

“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

“Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars”

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”

“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”

“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.”

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”

“It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.”

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

“I used to think as I looked out on 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.”

“In a world of monotonous horror
there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”

“Dreams are what keep a man going.”

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”

“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.”

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.”

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”

“All our dreams begin in youth.”

“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.”

“I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

“Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”

“a dream is only a memory of the future”

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”

“… most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”

“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”

“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”

“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”

“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”

“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

“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.”

“As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick.”

“The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”

“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.”

“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”

“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.”

“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.”

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”

“… because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.”

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

“Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.”

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?”

“And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.”