DREAMS QUOTES VIII

quotations about dreams & dreaming


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My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

KIRBY LARSON
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

ERMA BOMBECK

attributed, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul


Dream different dreams while on the same bed.

CHINESE PROVERB


The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them into reality.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech at the University of Berlin, May 12, 1910


You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

MICHAEL PHELPS

Woman's Day, Apr. 1, 2009


People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

JOHN STEINBECK

The Winter of Our Discontent


They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Eleonora"


Well now what's the use in dreamin'
You got better things to do
Dreams never did work for me anyway
Even when they did come true

BOB DYLAN

"I Feel a Change Comin' On"


I dream, therefore I exist.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

A Madman's Defense


Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

The Higher Pantheism


It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's for you electron blue

R.E.M.

"Sing for the Submarine"


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.

GLEN COOK

The White Rose


My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet


I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

letter to Woodburn Harris, February/March 1929


Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Interpretation of Dreams


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought


Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion


In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Cities of the Plain