Quotes About Dreams

Only what we dream is what we truly are, because all the rest, all that has been realized, belongs to the world and to everyone.

No soy nada. Nunca seré nada. No puedo querer ser nada. Aparté de esto, tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

Ik had een zeker talent voor vriendschap, maar ik heb nooit vrienden gehad, ofwel omdat ze er niet waren, ofwel omdat de vriendschap die mij voor ogen stond een fout van mijn dromen was.

I CARRY inside my heart, As in a chest too full to shut, All the places where I have been, All the ports at which I have called, All the sights I've seen through windows and portholes And from quarterdecks, dreaming. And all of this, which is so much, is nothing next to what I want. — Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems . (Grove Press; First Printing edition April 1, 1999)

Their way of dreaming is a garment that conceals, not a dream that creates.

Mas as paisagens sonhadas são apenas fumos de paisagens conhecidas e o tédio de as sonhar também é quase tão grande como o tédio de olharmos para o mundo.

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Entre o Sono e Sonho Entre o sono e sonho, Entre mim e o que em mim É o quem eu me suponho Corre um rio sem fim. Passou por outras margens, Diversas mais além, Naquelas várias viagens Que todo o rio tem. Chegou onde hoje habito A casa que hoje sou. Passa, se eu me medito; Se desperto, passou. E quem me sinto e morre No que me liga a mim Dorme onde o rio corre — Esse rio sem fim.

Gatsby creía en la luz verde, el futuro orgiástico que año tras año retrocede ante nosotros. Se nos escapa ahora, pero no importa, mañana correremos más, alargaremos

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.

E allora sarabande senza fine si srotolavano nella sua mente: come una baiadera ondeggiava di sogno in sogno , di malinconia in malinconia

Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.

My whole life I've wanted to be famous.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

I just want to be rich and famous.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.