Dream Quotes

You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dream big, you are powerful.You can exceed all your expectations

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep on dreaming, you will get to your destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pursuit of dreams is the fulfillment of the scriptures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live as we dream--alone....

~ Joseph Conrad

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

~ Harsha Bhogle

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

~ Neil Gaiman

Heaven did not seem to be my home, and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth, and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy.

~ Emily Brontë

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.”“She needed a ride.”I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?”“Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

~ Joseph Conrad

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

~ Maira Kalman

I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead.Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please! he begged.Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldn't find my lips. Carlisle! the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no! And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs.The angel shouldn't weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldn't breathe.

~ Stephenie Meyer

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

~ Paulo Coelho

It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...

~ Joseph Conrad

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

~ John Lennon

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

~ Leigh Bardugo

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

~ Richard Bach

You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

~ Carl Sandburg

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

~ Jacqueline Carey

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

~ Judith Mcnaught

The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.

~ Kiersten White

I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.

~ Brodi Ashton

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

~ Margaret Atwood

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

~ Judith Mcnaught

Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.

~ Toba Beta

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

~ Melina Marchetta

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

~ Maggie Osborne

And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.

~ Lauren Oliver

You have to believe in it to get it...

~ Nora Roberts

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

~ Stan Laurel

If there is no door to your dream, create one.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

What is human memory? Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he was. It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape. It is more like a story-telling machine. Sensory information is broken down into shards of perception, which are broken down again to be stored as memory fragments. And at night, as the body rests, these fragments are brought out from storage, reassembled and replayed. Each run-through etches them deeper into the brain's neural structure. And each time a memory is rehearsed or recalled it is elaborated. We may add a little, lose a little, tinker with the logic, fill in sections that have faded, perhaps even conflate disparate events. In extreme cases, we refer to this as confabulation. The brain creates and recreates the past, producing, in the end, a version of events that may bear little resemblance to what actually occurred. To first order, I believe it's true to say that everything I remember is false.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

~ Elizabeth George Speare

We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.

~ Hilary Winston

All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.

~ Philippe Forest

One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God

~ Jorge Luis Borges