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Quotes About Dreaming

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.
~ Amber Hollibaugh
If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
~ Bill Walton
It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
~ Janet Fitch
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'
~ Billy Al Bengston
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
~ Joseph Barbera
and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming...
~ Tom Waits
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
~ Tony Kushner
The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of great bells far out to sea. Snufkin lay still and listened. dreaming and remembering his trip round world. Soon I must set out again, he thought. But not yet.
~ Tove Jansson
I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hatti-fattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful to anything.
~ Tove Jansson
Try a RainWing. They're always asleep.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'm awake," Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. "I'm just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they all smelled like melons. That part was kind of weird.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'm awake," Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. "I'm just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive. She
~ Paul Scott
I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.
~ Paul Theroux
Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.
~ Paulette Jiles
I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreaming isn't as simple as it seems. On the contrary, it can be quite dangerous. When we dream, we put powerful engines in motion and can no longer hide the true meaning of our life from ourselves. When we dream, we also make a choice of what price to pay." Now. The longer I take, the more suffering I'll cause us both.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will travel. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.
~ Dong Kingman
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.
~ John Keats
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
~ Dave Eggers