Dreams Quotes

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan Sontag

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson

If dreams can be portents of what is to come, then I had my fair share if forewarning before my life was stolen away.
Charles De Lint

Was I the perfect mum? No... I think you have to let them follow their dreams, I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't
Lynne Spears

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Erich Fromm

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
J G Ballard

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail Godwin

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.
Amy Jo Johnson

I'm constantly having dreams where I'm incarcerated again or being chased by the police. That's the most horrible dream.
Mark Wahlberg

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Steven Callahan

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect
Franz Kafka

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W H Auden

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
Orlando Bloom

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B Yeats

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman Melville

If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
Bill Dixon

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. [On how to be a successful athlete]
Gail Devers

'So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!'
Peter Pan

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams [erm quite indeed]
Bram Stoker

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Michael Flatley

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali Hamilton

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

Unpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes and fears.
Stephen Brook

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words
Amy Lowell

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment
Jean Baudrillard

Divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mould me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Christina Aguilera

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks

'If you want anything to actually change or to move ahead in your life you actually have to do it yourself, you can“t sit there and wait for somebody or talk about what you might want, you know, you should actually keep dreams and desires inside and let them burn a little bit, and then they might come true'
Russell Crowe

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis Thompson

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my true time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
William Morris

Dreams are the seeds of change.
Debby Boone

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz Kafka

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
W B Yeats



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