Quotes About Visions

The strange thing was that these thoughts were not altogether unpleasant. They had a wild, black, poisonous beauty of their own, a lovely, deadly shimmer. They possessed the fascination of the impossible, the incredible. They hinted at unimaginable vistas. Even while they terrorized, they did not lose that chillingly poignant beauty. They were like the visions conjured up by some forbidden drug. They had the lure of an unknown sin and an ultimate blasphemy.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

What the fuck are you doing," he said, "hiding away in your parents' house? You should be back here, where it's all happening! Life!" He gestured around the pub, a forlorn place with bare floorboards covered in fag ends; who knows what visions he saw in his mind.

As we journey through the world, we must inevitably encounter meanness and selfishness. As we fight for our survival, the higher visions and ideals often fade. It is then that we need ladybirds! Contemplating that tiny creature, or the flower on which it rests, gives one the hope—better, the certainty—that there is more to life than interest rates, dividends, market forces, and infinite technology.

Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee, as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those, that thou sawest in thy sleep.

on the Street of Dreams it was dream eat dream.

Excuse this digression. At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions. You say, The end of the world is at hand. You lie to yourself - I'm glad I won't be around to see it - when in fact you'd like nothing better, as long as you can watch it through the little secret window, as long as you won't be involved. But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

He was a seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams, unconsciously charming and unfailingly kind.

It's Stella. Stella's got the gift and she'll get everything when I die.' 'And what's the gift, Miss Mary Beth?' my mother asked her. 'Why, Stella's seen the man,' Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. 'And the one who can see the man when she's all alone inherits all.

My mind said, Sleep. But more profoundly, my mind said, Dream.

away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. Please forgive me if I sound bitter.

It was the man of memory and the man of visions that I knew as soon as I studied him.

He was dying, no matter what his visions had told him, and no slight tender kiss of blood could save him now.

Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

The abduction phenomenon, it seems clear, is about what is yet to come. It presents, quite literally, visions of alternative futures, but it leaves the choice to

all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

The claim that the only constraints on our success are the limits of our imagination, although generally false, has lifted hearts for millennia. Grand visions take precedence over prosaic numbers.

I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.

It is the dark, the dark that draws me backInto a chaos whereVocations, visions fail, the will grows slackAnd I am stunned by silence everywhere.

People use the word "goal" when they are talking about aspirations or outcomes. If someone says "goal," you can't be sure what they are talking about since the word is ambiguous.