Quotes about dreams

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“Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes…”

“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”

“He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now… He was alone and there was nothing for him.”

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

“I glanced at George half naked in his towel, then at Barkley, completely naked in his… nothing. A vampire and a werewolf.
I shook my head. It was obvious. I was having one of my Anita Blake dreams again.”

“When it comes to believing in yourself, put your eye on the mark and don’t blink. If you have a goal, a dream, or an aspiration…believe in yourself while you are on the way to your destination, and you will have already arrived.”

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

“Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.”

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

“I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.”

“Live the dream, Potato.”

“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”

“Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."

"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.”

“Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.”

“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”

“Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.”

“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.”

“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”

“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.”

“We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”

“In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.”

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”

“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.”

“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.”

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”

“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.”

“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”

“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”

“I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.”

“I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.”

“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”

“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”

“Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.”

“I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.”

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”

“and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming…”

“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”

“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”

“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”

“Simple dreams are the hardest to come true”

“Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.”

“Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.”

“In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination

and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.”

“In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

“Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.”

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”

“A dream is not a very safe thing to be near… I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.”

“The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.”

“I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”

“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time….
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”

“Writers turn dreams into print.”

“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.”

“I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.”

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

“We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.”

“What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?”

“As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“Still humping the American Dream”

“Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.”

“What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.”

“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”

“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

“It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.”

“… and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

“I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.”

“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

“It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief”

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”

“I keep thinking about blood. I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

“Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.”

“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”

“Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!”

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

“I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.”

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”

“Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away.”

“We all suffer from dreams.”

“You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”

“Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more theof a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts.”

“Human history is a Gaian dream.”