Quotes about dream

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“Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
Doug: "Only in my dreams."
Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.”

“a dream can be the highest point of a life”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.”

“One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation”

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

“Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.”

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”

“If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.”

“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”

“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.”

“Dreams can be dangerous things.”

“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”

“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”

“There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.”

“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.”

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

“Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”

“His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.”

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

“It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.”

“He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.”

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

“The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.”

“Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?”

“We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.”

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”

“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”

“I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.”

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.”

“Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.”

“It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.”

“Deserve your dream.”

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.”

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

“You can't just go out-
No, I'll dream another dream.”

“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”

“He had fallen in love with this wild, beautiful country and everything it contained. It was the kind of love people dream of having with other people: selfless and free of doubt, reverent and everlasting.”

“The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.”

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”

“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”

“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”

“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”

“Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.”

“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”

“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”

“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

“What four realms? (Amanda)
Time, space, earth, and dreams. (Talon)
Okay, now that is scary. Some of you guys walk through time? (Amanda)
And space and dreams. (Talon)
Ah. So Rod Sterling was a Were-Hunter? (Amanda)”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”

“Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

“I dream a dream that dreams back at me”

“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”

“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

“We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”

“HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”

“Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”

“Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.”

“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.”

“As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

“Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.”

“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”
“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams”

“Theof what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.”

“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”

“She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.”

“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”

“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”

“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”

“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams”

“Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.”

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?”

“Adjust my dreams for me.”

“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”

“When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.”

“There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”

“Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark…”