Quotes About Dreams

Not all dreams need to be realized. That was what Fred used to say. We accomplished things that no one would ever know.

You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams.

There are many truths and there are many worlds, said the sign solemnly. —Yes, I said, feeling quite humbled. And you were right. I did dream, many dreams, and they were much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of the mind. Yes, I absolutely dreamed.

You know, the dreams you had for me weren't my dreams," he said. "Maybe those dreamsare meant for you.

I dreamed I was somewhere that was also nowhere.

No moon or stars, real or imagined.

We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality (p.43)

The brilliant trees burned through the heavy mist and he climbed them to pluck leaves of gold, cramming fistfuls inside his sweater, imagining the wealth that would be his.

The café I'll never realize, the cafés I'll never know.

It occurred to me, as the heavy curtains were opened and the morning light flooded the small dining area, that without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality.

I finally placed where the images in my morning dream might have come from - the Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War. Thousands of young soldiers lay dead on the battleground in a peach orchard in full bloom. It was said that the blossoms fell upon them, covering them like a thin layer of fragrant snow. I wondered why I had dreamed that, but then again, why do we dream about anything?

Ve o an dü? gören herkesin kendi devirlerindekileri dü?ledi?ini geçirmi?tim akl?mdan. Antik Yunan uygarl??? kendi tanr?lar?n?n dü?lerini kurdu. Emily Brontë çorak arazilerin.

You see, there's a saying carved in Old English on a wooden plank on one of the oldest structures built in America. This is Tangier Island. As it goes, so do we. —Have you actually seen it? I asked. —You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams. For instance, he added slyly, you're dreaming now.

For a time we considered buying an abandoned lighthouse or a shrimp trawler. But when I found I was pregnant we headed back home to Detroit, trading one set of dreams for another.

that without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality

sleep, without sound of itself, is the engendering space of sound.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Pero cuando la fe desaparece, cuando comprendes que ni siquiera te queda las esperanza de recuperar la esperanza, entonces tiendes a llenar los espacios vacíos con sueños, pequeña fantasías y cuentos infantiles que te ayuden a sobrevivir.

Half the people I know want to be writers. Why do you say want? If you're already doing it, then it's not about the future. It already exists in the present.

As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.

Think of the satisfaction [...] of crawling into bed and knowing that your dreams are about to take place on top of nineteenth-century American literature. Imagine the pleasure of sitting down to a meal with the entire Renaissance lurking below your food. In point of fact, I had no idea which books were in which boxes, but I was a great one for making up stories back then, and I liked the sound of those sentences, even if they were false.

Il n'y a pas qu'un seul monde. Il y en a plusieurs, et ils existent tous parallèlement les uns aux autres, mondes et antimondes, mondes et mondes fantômes, et chacun d'entre eux est rêvé ou imaginé ou écrit par un habitant d'un autre monde. Chaque monde est la création d'un esprit.