Dreams Quotes

I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.

~ Susan Fletcher

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

~ P.b. Kerr

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

~ Douglas Everett

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

~ Kelly Cutrone

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

~ Mary Balogh

Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy. My imaginary friend smirked. But you’re already talking to me. Well, I have to stop. His smirk grew cocky. I doubt you can resist. And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin―to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.

~ Mike Yaconelli

Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again!For so the night will more than payThe hopeless longings of the day.

~ Matthew Arnold

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams, purge your thoughts of the life you knew before. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and live, as you never lived before!

~ Charles Hart

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

~ Deb Caletti

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

~ Richard Ford

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

~ Haruki Murakami

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

~ Ian Mcewan

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

~ Nora Roberts

I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him--the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire. Then I awoke. Then I recalled where I was, and how situated. Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.

~ J.d. Stroube

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

~ Paula H. Deen

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Never lose your passion 2 dream.

~ Pablo

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from After an Absence]

~ Linda Pastan

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

~ Erin Morgenstern

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

~ Camille Claudel

All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.

~ Christina Westover

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

~ Brian Selznick

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.

~ Anna Godbersen

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

~ Cecelia Ahern

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

~ Haruki Murakami

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

~ Louisa May Alcott

There comes a moment in life when you say to yourself – enough. This is ENOUGH! Then – you take a walk with your destiny. To change. To fulfill your purpose. We all have it. But are you willing to take that first step?

~ Besa Kosova

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

~ Marty Rubin

You may need to change your dreams.

~ Jean Kwok

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.

~ Steve Goodier

When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever you found the day.

~ A.e. Housman

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

~ Sakurai Sho