Quotes about dream (4427 quotes, page 11)

“We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Source: 2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
Context: I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. Opposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact; recognize different viewpoints; revere our deep commitment to religious freedom. But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple, often painfully, real change is possible. Shifts in hearts and minds is possible. And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.

Dreams , Hope

“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

World , Dreams , Understanding , Happiness

“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Dreams , Sleep , Night

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 60

Dreams

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

Dreams , Loneliness , Flying

“Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 05

Dreams , Parent

“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Dreams

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Variant: I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Source: Van Gogh's Starry Night Notebook

Dreams , Star , Parting

“What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream."
"I need you," said Lisa.
"I hear that from women a lot.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Women , Dreams

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Love , Dreams , Drink

“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Men , Dreams , Home

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Life , Dreams , Sleep , Time

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Dreams , Soul , Sleep , Night

“The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

Life , Dreams , Personality

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) Yiddish author and playwright

Motivational , Wise , Deep , Happy

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Dreams , Way

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Icehenge

Source: Icehenge

Dreams , Thinking , Sleep

“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Dreams

“We live as we dream--alone….”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Dreams

“Dreams are the language of God.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God , Dreams

“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Life , Dreams , Game

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

Youth , Dreams , Madness

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”

Umberto Eco book Baudolino

Source: Baudolino

Life , Dreams

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Darkness http://readytogoebooks.com/Lb-Drk85.htm, line 1 (1816).

Dreams

“In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

World , Dreams , Daughters

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.”

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

Dreams , Courage , Personality

“For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

People , Dreams , Hope

“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Love , Dreams , Future

“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Dreams , Thinking , Heart , Forgetting

“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Dreams

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."

"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Youth , Dreams , Dead

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Dreams , Feeling , Knowledge

“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope….”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Dreams , Hope , Soul , Distant

“Clovis,’ Nico growled, ‘for the gods’ sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

God , Dreams

“Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Dreams , Way

“Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Dreams , Forgiveness , Appearance

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Love , Dreams , Hope

“Dreams are necessary to life.”

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

Life , Dreams

“They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Dreams , Time

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)

Dreams , Failure , Perfection

“Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book Young Goodman Brown

Source: "Young Goodman Brown"
Context: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."

Dreams , Hope , Nature , Evil

“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life , Dreams , Hope

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Dreams

“Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars”

Catherine Fisher book Incarceron

Source: Incarceron

Dreams , Star

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: The Seventh Seal

World , Dreams , Feeling , Heart

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

Agatha Christie book Endless Night

Source: Endless Night

World , Dreams

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

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

"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)

Wise , Heartbreaking , Hope , Life

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Love , Dreams , Imagination

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

Dreams

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It

Dreams , Personality

“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Truth , Secret , World , Dreams

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
1810s

Dreams , History , Past , Future

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night (1960)

Life , God , Children , Faith

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist

Quote in Avant et Après, (1903); taken from Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, trans. (1923) Van Wyck Brooks [Dover, 1997, ISBN 0-486-29441-2], p. 2
1890s - 1910s

Life , Dreams , Revenge

“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

Life , Dreams , Hope

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Dreams , Understanding

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

Dreams

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

Pain , Dreams , Time , Future

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

Dreams , Heart

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

World , Dreams , Reality

“It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Dreams , Imagination

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Life , People , Dreams , Way

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

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

Variant: I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, «There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Dreams , Girl , Star , Thinking

“In a world of monotonous horror
there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”

Richard Matheson book I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

World , Dreams

“Dreams are what keep a man going.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Source: Big Fish

Dreams

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Dreams , Rage , Despair

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Love , Fear , Dreams , Question

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”

Ruth Rendell One Across, Two Down

Source: One Across, Two Down

Dreams , Feeling

“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Dreams

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Though Kennedy stated that he was quoting George Bernard Shaw when he said this, he is often thought to have originated the expression, which actually paraphrases a line delivered by the Serpent in Shaw's play Back To Methuselah: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’". This phrase was first used by his brother John F. Kennedy in 1963 (June 28th), during his visit to Ireland, in his address to the Irish Dail (Government): "George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life, 'Other people, he said, see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?" ( Address on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADeazX9blw.). Robert's other brother Edward famously quoted it (paraphrasing it even further), to conclude his eulogy to his late brother after his assassination (8 June 1968): Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? - (Eulogy in CBS news video) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5268061n
Misattributed
Source: Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

Dreams , Way

“i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams , Waiting , Heart

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Age , Dreams , Past

“All our dreams begin in youth.”

Heinrich Harrer book Seven Years in Tibet

Source: Seven Years in Tibet

Youth , Dreams

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

Dreams , Art , Soul

“I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Dreams

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Preface to Dr. Brodie's Report [El informe de Brodie] (1970)

Dreams

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”

Jack Kerouac book The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Dreams

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Dreams , Fish , Memory

“Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”

George Sterling (1869–1926) American poet and playwright

Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Fear , Dreams

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Life , Dreams

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Source: The Great Gatsby

Dreams

“a dream is only a memory of the future”

Steve Erickson (1950) novelist, essayist, film critic

Dreams , Memory , Future

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People , Dreams , Time

“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Dreams

“… most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

Love , Women , Men , Dreams

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book Carmilla

Variant: Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Source: Carmilla

Dreams , Light , Personality

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life , Dreams , Way

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”

Harlan Ellison Stalking the Nightmare

Source: Stalking the Nightmare

Dreams

“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

Dreams

“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”

James Frey Bright Shiny Morning

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

Dreams , Angels

“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”

Anne McCaffrey book Nerilka's Story

Source: Nerilka's Story

Dreams , Sun , Cry

“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: Yours Until Dawn

Dreams , Night

“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

Carolyn Parkhurst The Dogs of Babel

Source: The Dogs of Babel

Dreams , Color , Sleep , Heart

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Dreams