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Quotes About Dreaming

She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
~ Sherwood Anderson
You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
~ Sherwood Anderson
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
~ Sigmund Freud
Gabriela has been dreaming about her and about a pair of shoes for quite some time.
~ Silvina Ocampo
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
Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.
~ Martin Pistorius
I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
~ Thomas Hood
I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I spent hours dreaming of the sunshine, the way it soaked into the city walls and made the yellow stones hot to lean on hours after the day had ended
~ Megan Whalen Turner
It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen.
~ Melissa Senate
44. fly high dreaming bird higher and higher on the wire of time no road blocks no stopping to think through why wings flap what makes the worthy soar only this pure heaven right now sky high
~ bell hooks
I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.
~ Benedict Freedman
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.
~ Beryl Markham
I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias.
~ Chloe Benjamin
For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
~ Shimon Peres
The Age of the Screen isn't going to go away; indeed it offers all kinds of wonderful possibilities, if it could just acquire a little more quality control. But there is one truth, one necessary dictum, that we must never forget: _Every child should be encouraged to read books, words on a page, for his or her own pleasure, in his own time, dreaming his own - and the author's - dream_. There is no substitute. None.
~ Susan Cooper
She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.
~ Susan Wiggs
She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.
~ Susan Wiggs
Jane kneels and kisses her soiled son. David does not look at her. It is as though, however, he is dreaming of looking at her.
~ Joy Williams
He said, "We are all asleep and dreaming, you know. If we could ever actually comprehend our true position, we would not be able to bear it, we would have to find a way out." The girl nodded. She was embarrassed.
~ Joy Williams
You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.
~ Juan Rulfo
I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
~ Judy Collins
I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.
~ Christine and the Queens
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
~ Haruki Murakami