“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Full Moon
Source: Hunted
“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Full Moon
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Variant: Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)
“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell
“We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Page 44.
Source: Invisible Cities (1972)
Context: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.