Quotes about dreams
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“The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Time, Weather

“I dream in fire but work in clay.”

Arthur Machen (1863–1947) Welsh author and mystic

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: Absent Presence

Night

“Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.”

Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer

Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

Decision

“Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Swapping Lives

Reality, Time

“The key to happiness was achievable dreams.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Happiness

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Bird

“I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

Books, Peace, Madness, Night

“Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Circle Booklet

Lie, Kiss, Night

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Water

“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Reality

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Life, Reality, Appearance

“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)”

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy (1926–2014) British historian

Mountain, Reading

“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love

Bird

“Thou art a dreaming thing,
A fever of thyself.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Art

“The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake.
What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Idea, Thinking, Singing

“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 11, p. 187
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

Learning

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Love, Heart, Goodbye

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Again the Magic

Love, Hate, Making love, Night

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

Sleep, Memory

“I've wished for things and never really had the chance… It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then… go.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Chance, Time

“Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

World, Heart, Clothes

“I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 18:

Search, Bird, Fight

“There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Love

“No one had ever said such things to her before. People were intimidated by her self-possession and no-nonsense demeanor. No man would ever dream of calling her adorable, sweet, darling… and certainly no one had ever made herthat way.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Suddenly You

People, Way

“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Hope, Soul

“I will steal your dreams tonight.

Dark”

Yukiru Sugisaki (1974) Manga artist

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Reality, Sense

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. <br class="br">Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Love, Death, Hope, Imagination

“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Happiness, Reality

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Life, Future

“What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Baby

“Thank God even crazy dreams come true”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

God

“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Source: The Bijak of Kabir

Love, Death, World

“Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Way

“There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Sleep, Flying

“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Sleep

“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Paul Flanner, Chapter 16, p. 188
Source: 2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)

Sleep, Time, Heart, Night

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: Regalo de un Poeta

Night

“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Variant: But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for

Life, Suffering, Fight