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Quotes About Dreams

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
~ Joan D. Chittister
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
~ Virginia Woolf
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
~ N. Scott Momaday
He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.
~ Heidi Klum
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.
~ M.J. Rose
Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
~ Snoop Dogg
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.
~ Tama J. Kieves
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
~ Terry Pratchett
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
~ Abraham Verghese
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
~ Alfred de Vigny
There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
~ Sean Plott
If I had my life to live over, I would never dream
~ Stevie Nicks
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.
~ Tom Peters