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Quotes About Dreaming

You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
~ Tom Petty
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
~ Taylor Swift
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
~ Glen Hirshberg
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
~ Bertrand Russell
Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
All the details of my life were in exact order and yet I was tumbling in them-out of order like a tremendous wave had hit me and I was thrown off the ship and I awoke or dreaming, or dead I knew not-no I couldn't speak.
~ Eileen Myles
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.
~ Elie Wiesel
always fugitive, always near always concealed, always disdainful always leaving, always untouched always in black, always dreaming always the bitter flower always the night, always concealed always fugitive, always caged always your face always the bitter flower of your lips, always your bed always near, always fleeing always waiting, always waiting always calling to you always the night deepens always the night always fugitive, always near
~ Antonio Machado
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt -- O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heart And the golden bees were making white combs And sweet honey from all my failures.
~ Antonio Machado
A volte una soluzione sembra plausibile solo in questo modo: sognando. Forse perché la ragione è pavida, non riesce a riempire i vuoti fra le cose, a stabilire la completezza, che è una forma di semplicità, preferisce una complicazione piena di buchi, e allora la volontà affida la soluzione al sogno.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
Aislinn's mother didn't know that her daughter possessed another skill besides prophetic dreaming. A much darker one. An ability that would put her on the other side of Piefferburg Square, with the monsters. It was the reason she couldn't have anyone living with her. They might notice her odd behavior as she dealt with her ability and tell the queen about it. Aislinn could communicate with the dead.
~ Anya Bast
And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.
~ Tony Kushner
I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night after a gig, I'd go to bed dreaming of being in the band myself.
~ Martin Kemp
O man! Attend! What does deep midnight's voice contend? I slept my sleep, And now awake at dreaming's end: The world is deep, And deeper than day can comprehend. Deep is its woe, Joy—deeper than heart's agony: Woe says: Fade! Go! But all joy wants eternity, Wants deep, wants deep eternity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse—and forget it immediately.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not the All-Star point guard that everybody's dreaming about right now. I'm not that. I wish I was, but I'm a work in progress and I'm not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who's not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I'm always going to do that.
~ George Hill
I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
~ Zebulon Pike
Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
~ Angelina Jolie
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
~ Tina Turner
For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
~ Jean Nidetch
'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
~ Florentijn Hofman
Quite simply, if someone tells you often that they're dreaming of, or thinking about, you, it means you're someone they see as a big part of their life. When you're in their head, it means you're also pretty close to their heart.
~ Matthew Hussey
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
~ Andrew Weil