Dreams Quotes

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

~ Elbert Hubbard

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

~ J.k. Rowling

What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

~ Cinda Williams Chima

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

~ Neil Gaiman

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore

~ Michael J. Sullivan

In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn’t the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming something else.

~ Miranda July

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

~ Shannon Celebi

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm

~ Francesca Lia Block

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

~ Joseph Campbell

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

~ Dara Torres

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

~ Anthony Robbins

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

~ Diogenes Laërtius

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

~ Christina Westover

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

~ Haruki Murakami

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

~ Suzy Kassem

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

~ Tom Robbins

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

~ Ally Carter

...she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

~ Stephen Cosgrove

The world is a giant eye, staring back at the stars. When it tires, it closes its lids--just as I am doing now--and gives way to dreams, which is why the night is so much more mysterious than the day.

~ Sean Stewart

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

~ Alfred De Musset

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

~ H.p. Lovecraft

My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

~ Neil Gaiman

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

~ Kathryn Lasky

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

~ Maggie Stiefvater

All dreams continue in the beyond.

~ Tom Robbins

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

~ Robert Fanney

Her passions were narrow but deep.

~ Toni Morrison

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell

~ E.e. Cummings

This was the way he had to go, he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky.

~ S.h. Kolee

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

~ Lisa Ann Sandell