Dreaming Quotes

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

~ Haruki Murakami

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

~ Fernando Pessoa

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

~ Kate O'riordan

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition. He might then dream that he had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it. The human is still there, but as a hurt child. Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage. An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman. This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of unconscious.

~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

My cough is much worse at night and often prevents me from sleeping. It is not so much the daytime tiredness that I resent, but the inability to proceed uninter- rupted with my dreams, to run and play with my fancies, and, at last, in the early hours of the morning, to be visited with visions like a holy madman. The dreamer is like a Delian diver, fishing for pearls from the depths of our inner sea of knowledge; and I must have solved, or rather resolved, many more problems in my sleep than in my conscious hours.

~ Neel Burton

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.

~ Joel L.

A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal

~ Pessoa

As he floated more and more deeply toward sleep, the scent of her body and hair was redolent throught his senses, until he was dreaming of breathing her skin.

~ Frank Lee

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

~ Cassandra Clare

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

~ William Joyce

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

~ Kristian Kan

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.

~ Rebecah Mcmanus

Is that actually you or am I dreaming again?

~ Ella Fox

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

~ Paulo Coelho

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

~ J.g. Ballard

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

~ William Dement

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

~ Kellie Elmore

I'm dreaming of a month of Sundays.

~ Steven Herrick

But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast.

~ Holly Schindler

I'm far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray. It starts in silence, but I can see the people. Everyone is in a hurry. They're racing around the globe. They each hold a thread, like a bit of string, and it unravels, covering the planet. The buzzing starts. The buzzing gets faster and louder. They're all racing to one spot on the earth. I'm outside of it and I can see everything. I can see every person in the world racing to a single spot on the earth. The buzzing is all I can hear. It gets so I can't take it. Then I wake up.

~ Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

~ Jane Roberts

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

~ Joseph Barbera

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

~ Katie Holmes

Dreaming men are haunted men.

~ Stephen Vincent Benét

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

~ Novalis

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

~ Herb Brooks

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

~ Lenny Wilkens

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

~ Lope De Vega

I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.

~ Imtiaz Ali

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

~ Mohit Chauhan