quotations about dreams & dreaming
Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.
ZIG ZIGLAR
Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
CARL JUNG
Man and His Symbols
Don't let your reality change your dreams, let your dreams change reality.
ANONYMOUS
People have dreams all the time. It don't mean nothin.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The Crossing
In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,--not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
"Berenice"
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO
Minima Moralia
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation's Edge
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
The dream undreamed is fairer yet
Than these, that turn to dust.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD
"The Rhythm of Life"
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
EUGÈNE IONESCO
Man With Bags
Dreams never deceive.
DEPECHE MODE
"Comatose"
Dreams take short cuts.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Lathe of Heaven
Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Ever After
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
GLEN COOK
Water Sleeps
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
JOSé SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda