Quotes About Dreams

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar. ANTONIO MACHADO

It's stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand.

That thing over there was more there than it's there! Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn't exist. But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be, And the rest are the dreams men have, The myopia of someone who doesn't look very much,

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

The darkening brilliance of dreams that drowned. Painful Water.

Soñé que me miraba y que me sonreía como quien oye dulces mentiras. Era tan cierto que tenía que ser mentira.

Salga de ahí con las alegorías. Uno quiere ser inmortal y tratan de contentarlo con el recuerdo que dejará en los otros. Uno quiere volar y le hablan de pensamientos espirituales. Uno quiere conversar con los muertos y debe conformarse soñando con su abuelo.

I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.

We're in different beds but we have the same dream." Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of "different dreams in the same bed." The implication of the saying was that no two people could fully trust each other. Even a husband and wife who'd slept beside each other for fifty years had different dreams.

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.

A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one.

Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

Being part of any solution means taking action. And taking action involves more than just dreaming, no matter how vivid, how real, one's dreams appear. Whether dreaming or awake, when we are prisoners of our thoughts, we can't always see very clearly through the bars of our metaphorical prison cell, let alone take action.