Quotes about dreams
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“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Disappointment

“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…”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, Idea, 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.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Love, People, Light, Waiting

“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.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Hope, Game

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

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

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

Lois Lowry book Number the Stars

Source: Number the Stars

Star, Sleep, Night

“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.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: Fanged & Fabulous

“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.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Way

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Girl, Wedding, Housing

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

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Pleasure, Food, Soul, Search

“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.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

World, Sadness, Feeling

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

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

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

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

“Live the dream, Potato.”

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

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

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

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

“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.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Life, Idea, Water, Wine

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

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

Stupidity, Democracy

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

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

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

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

Zoë Heller (1965) British writer

Source: Notes On A Scandal

Reality, Motivational

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

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Love, Life

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

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

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

Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist

Source: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

People, Problem

“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.”

Gaston Bachelard book The Poetics of Space

Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 1

Peace, Housing

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Life, Men

“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”

Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Thinking, Housing

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

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

Sleep, Night

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

Stephen King (1947) American author

Way, Learning

“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?”

Richard K. Morgan book Woken Furies

Source: Woken Furies

Time, Hurt

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

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Sleep

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

Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist

Way, Joy

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

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Problem, Personality

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

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Thinking, Leadership

“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.”

Patricia A. McKillip (1948) American fantasy writer

Fear, Imagination

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

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Clothes

“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.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Men, World, Problem, Reality

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Nature, Thinking, Time

“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.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

“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.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Love, World, Heart

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

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

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.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

Source: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

God, Communication, Personality

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“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.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Love

“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.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Love, Thinking

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

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Forgetting

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Sadness, Soul, Intelligence

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

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

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

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“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.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

Fear, Home

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

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: Images: My Life in Film

Reality

“Simple dreams are the hardest to come true”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

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

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Smile, Sun, Weather

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Way

“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.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

World, Angels, Imagination, Failure

“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.”

Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director

Source: Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

Life, Death, Sense

“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.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Life, Men, Travel, Help

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

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 8
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Music, 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.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Hurt

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

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
Variant: Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Source: The Complete Poems

“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.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, World, Sense

“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.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Way, Time, Princess

“Writers turn dreams into print.”

James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author

Source: Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

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

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

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

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Law, Search

“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.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Hate, Feeling, Future

“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.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

Source: America

Communication

“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.”

Tess Gerritsen (1953) Chinese-American novelist

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

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Travel, Time

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

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

Love

“Still humping the American Dream”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“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.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Heart

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

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day: How To Survive And Thrive When Opportunity Roars

God, Courage

“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.”

Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

"Time", Rain Dogs (1985).

History, Forgetting

“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.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

History, Courage, Past, Moving On

“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.”

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

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Imagination, Time, Heart

“… 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.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Kiss, Light, Night

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Hope

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

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Food, Animals

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

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

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.”

Stephen King book Rose Madder

Source: Rose Madder

World, Sleep

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

Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

Men, World

“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.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Thinking

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

World, Thinking

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

Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Personality

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men

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

Tom Schulman (1950) American film director, screenwriter

Source: Dead Poets Society

Men

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

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“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!”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Life

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

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Sleep

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

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Disappointment

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

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Baby, Madness

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

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Sleep

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

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

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

Time, Summer

“We all suffer from dreams.”

Bernard Cornwell book Death of Kings

Source: Death of Kings

Suffering

“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.”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

Learning, Time, Forgetting

“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.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Thinking, Tree

“Human history is a Gaian dream.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

History

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Quotes about dreams
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