DREAMS QUOTES II
quotations about dreams & dreaming
Like a man who catches at shadows or chases the wind, is the one who believes in dreams. What is seen in dreams is to reality what the reflection of a face is to the face itself.
BEN SIRA
Sirach 34:2-3
The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
There pass the trav'lling dreams, and these my soul adores.
STELLA BENSON
Twenty
Do not talk much about your dreams until you have made them practicable.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"The Dreamer", Human Life from Many Angles
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind.
Ain't life unkind?
THE ROLLING STONES
"Ruby Tuesday"
The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences, which ignorance mistakes for verifications.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Listen to the colour of your dreams.
THE BEATLES
Tomorrow Never Knows
Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
We see but in dreams the ideal.
HENRI CAZALIS
"Always"
The conclusion which is now forced upon me is that the dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought which I attained after complete analysis. I do not yet know the process by which the dream arose from those thoughts, but I perceive that it is wrong to regard the dream as psychically unimportant, a purely physical process which has arisen from the activity of isolated cortical elements awakened out of sleep.
SIGMUND FREUD
"Dreams Have a Meaning", Dream Psychology
Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far,
Above the light of the morning star.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Land of Dreams
Dreams were in the same bag as Meaning and Things Happening For A Reason and God.
GLEN DUNCAN
By Blood We Live
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
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Interpretation of Dreams
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.
ALEX GARLAND
The Coma
Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.
DAVE RAMSEY
daily tip
Dreams were not messengers from the spirit world. They were simply the detritus of the brain's random firings during REM sleep.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
Eye of the Whale
Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, Perceive This!: How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions
Dreams have led many astray, and those who believed in them have perished.
BEN SIRA
Sirach 34:7