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Quotes About Dreaming

Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows
~ Unknown
The horror of immolating another wakes up the child, the dreaming angel, the slumbering god, and casts him into the hell that most men call their lives. Only a poet is forever a child.
~ Unknown
He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
~ Hugo Pratt
Morgana:"Qualcuno c'è... Quel marinaio addormentato... che forse sta sognando..." Merlino:"Si... ma sta sognando a occhi aperti, e chi sogna ad occhi aperti è pericoloso perchè non sa quando finisce il sogno
~ Hugo Pratt
When we stop dreaming and believing in our dream, we stop being human.
~ Ilchi Lee
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
~ Unknown
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the seagreat heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies.And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender youngand dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!
~ Lisa Kleypas
If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
~ Joan Didion
Dreaming is the closest the average human gets to the paranormal plane; it's the time when the mind lets down its guard and the walls get thin enough for there to be glimpses to the other side. That's why, after sleeping, so many people report a visit from someone who's passed.
~ Jodi Picoult
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.
~ Paulo Coelho
Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I'm not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without
~ Unknown
The old bottles lay dreaming of new wine. I picked up my breast, which had gone out. By other lights I go looking for yours Through the standing harvest of my lost arrows...
~ W.S. Merwin
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
~ Irving Berlin
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.
~ Irving Berlin
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
~ Petrarch
What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn't believe in the beautiful itself and isn't able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don't you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn't this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?
~ Plato
Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, they sang.
~ Rachel Cohn
I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.
~ Dean Koontz
God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don't want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don't feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream.
~ Debbie Macomber