Quotes About Dreaming

Sonhar é confessar a necessidade de viver, substituindo a vida real pela vida irreal, e assim é uma compensação de inalienabilidade do querer viver. Que é tudo isto enfim senão a busca da felicidade? E busca qualquer qualquer outra coisa.

Lesen heißt durch fremde Hand träumen.

se lembre como é não só melhor, senão mais verdadeiro, o sonhar com Bordéus do que desembarcar em Bordéus

It's raining, and as if the rain had made them hunch forward, my feelings lower their stupid gaze to the ground, where water flows and nourishes nothing, washes nothing, cheers up nothing. It's raining, and I suddenly feel the terrible weight of being an animal that doesn't know what it is, dreaming its thought and emotion, withdrawn into a spatial region of being as into a hovel, satisfied by a little heat as by an eternal truth.

To dream, for example, that I'm simultaneously, separately, severally the man and the woman on a stroll that a man and woman are taking along the river. To see myself – at the same time, in the same way, with equal precision and without overlap, being equally but separately integrated into both things – as a conscious ship in a South Sea and a printed page from an old book. How absurd this seems! But everything is absurd, and dreaming least of all.

Recordemo-nos sempre de que sonhar é procurarmo-nos.

Without illusions, we live by dreaming, which is the illusion of those who can't have illusions.

A melhor maneira de começar a sonhar é mediante livros. Os romances servem de muito para o principiante. Aprender a entregar-se totalmente à leitura, a viver absolutamente com as personagens de um romance, eis o primeiro passo. Que a nossa família e as suas mágoas nos pareçam chilras e nojentas ao lado dessas, eis o sinal do progresso.

All of us are near-sighted, except on the inside. Only our dreaming sees with clear vision.

No nos gustan los espectáculos. Despreciamos a actores y danzarines. Todo espectáculo es la imitación degradada de lo que habría solamente que soñar.

Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so.

Note that the art of dreaming is not the art of directing our dreams. To direct is to act. The true dreamer surrenders to himself, is possessed by himself.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room to the other, dreaming out loud incoherent and impossible things – deeds I'd forgotten to do, hopeless ambitions haphazardly realized, fluid and lively conversations which, were they to be, would already have been.

A dandy in spirit, he paraded the art of dreaming through the pure happenstance of existence.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

From aloof academics to career government cronies, President Barack Obama filled his Cabinet with individuals whose greatest achievements were dreaming up unworkable Democratic utopias from the far off perches of academia and Washington bureaucracy.

Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any life passage may be at the heart of healing, our healers -declared or undeclared - will help people use the power of dreaming to move beyond personal history into a bigger story that contains the juice and sense of purpose to get them through.

Conscious dreaming allows us to fold time and travel into the future or the past, as well as explore other life experiences. Beyond all of this, it may allow us to be present at the place of creation - the plane on which the events and circumstances of physical life are born.

I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of the trees that helped to restart the dreaming and foster the understanding that we must dream not only for ourselves but also for our communities and for all that shares life with us in our fragile bubble of air.

Dreaming is an advanced evolutionary exercise, a way the brain can go on an extended journey into that other reality.

I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.