Dreams Quotes

Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

~ Charles Dickens

Run my dear,From anythingThat may not strengthenYour precious budding wings.

~ Hafiz

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

~ Trevor Noah

Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.

~ Langston Hughes

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

~ David Mitchell

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

~ Toni Morrison

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

~ Ray Charles

In my dreams, I never have an age.

~ Madeleine L'engle

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

~ Neil Gaiman

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

~ Rick Riordan

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

~ Marsha Norman

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.

~ Rainbow Rowell

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

~ Charles Dickens

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

~ Neil Gaiman

When we can't dream any longer we die.

~ Emma Goldman

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

~ James Redfield

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

~ C.g. Jung

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.

~ Francesca Lia Block

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

~ Boris Pasternak

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

~ Douglas Coupland

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

~ Michael Ondaatje

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

~ Paulo Coelho

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

~ Akira Kurosawa

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

~ Sigmund Freud

Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in

~ Edgar Allan Poe

In dreams begins responsiblities.

~ Haruki Murakami

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

~ Michael Ondaatje

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

~ Oscar Wilde

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? 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 the very essence of dreams...

~ Joseph Conrad

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

~ Brent Weeks

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

~ Fernando Pessoa

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

~ William C. Dement