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Quotes About Dreaming

There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving.
~ Dave Eggers
Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.
~ David Almond
We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
~ William Shakespeare
He's dreaming, Cloquet thought, as he stood over him, revolver in hand. He's dreaming, and I exist in reality. Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
~ Woody Allen
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
~ Yann Martel
Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities.
~ Yann Martel
To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
~ Yann Martel
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
~ Christopher Pike
We do not stop dreaming until we cease believing in the power of imagination.
~ Unknown
Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.
~ Unknown
The extension of human thinking is not only felt in dreaming when you are asleep. You can express it further by interpreting it in the outside world.
~ Unknown
We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
~ Herb Brooks
how short the step, from dreaming to desiring to encompassing. . . the thought is father to the deed, and the deed is born raw, ugly, premature.
~ Hilary Mantel
The dreaming attention-the second attention that is like a sewage or diarrhea can move to other people
~ Unknown
Maybe I even miss being afraid. I feel as though I am dreaming away my days, restless, never fully awake.
~ Holly Black
It's magic I long for, magic I miss. Maybe I even miss being afraid. I feel as though I am dreaming away my days, restless, never fully awake.
~ Holly Black
I miss Faerieland with a raw intensity. It's magic I long for, magic I miss. Maybe I even miss being afraid. I feel as though I am dreaming away my days, restless, never fully awake.
~ Holly Black
I am dreaming away my days, restless, never fully awake.
~ Holly Black
Im sleepin, Im dreamin. I know theres a better way cause Ive seen it Lord.
~ Lil Wayne
Cats are fond of mooning.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Je me crois un écrivain dans sa tour d'ivoire, je ne suis qu'un minus habens perché sur son nuage.
~ Unknown
Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.
~ Lisa Jewell