Quotes about dreams page 13
William Gibson book Neuromancer
Source: Neuromancer (1984)
Context: A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
William Nicholson movie Shadowlands
Source: Shadowlands
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
Rikki Ducornet (1949) American writer and artist
Source: The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
“It is your duty in life to save your dream.”
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) Italian painter and sculptor
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.”
Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage
Source: The Pilgrimage
“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell
Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
Jean Genet (1910–1986) French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
Source: Twisted
“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Source: Man With Bags
“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted
Source: Haunted (2005)
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Source: The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu
Context: How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a border guard in Ai. When first captured by the state of Jin, she wept so much her clothes were soaked. But after she entered the palace, shared the king's bed, and dined on the finest meats, she regretted her tears. How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night.
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Variant: But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Source: The Complete Stories
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock….”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
N. Scott Momaday (1934) American author
“Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
Variant: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Mark Victor Hansen (1948) American writer
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Walking (June 1862)
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
“Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: On the Edge