Quotes About Dreams

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Kaz drifted off, lured by the thought of a book he hadn't yet met.

Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them. —Captain John Winters

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters

Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star

I still have an overwhelming wish to see him the way that I first saw him: as the wise old man who appeared to me out of nowhere on a desolate strip of road, with a bewitching offer to make all my dreams come true.

Besides, I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.

But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?" Harriet had once asked her sister curiously. Allison shrugged. "Isn't it boring?" "I only get bored when I'm awake.

No. I am rather curious to see what it is like. Besides, I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.

But it was also a bit like a failed artist working as a security officer at an art gallery, or a failed author working in a bookshop. There's a constant reminder of how close you are to the thing you want, and how far away from it you are.

The dead appear to us in dreams

And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful.... You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Half of what we do, or try to be, amounts to blueprints for the future that we try to imagine.

At the end of a century of grand revolutionary romanticism; frightful sacrifices for the sake of paradises and heavens on earth and the withering away of the state; passionate dreams of Utopias and wonderlands and perfect cities; attempts at communes and commonwealths, at co-operatives and kibbutzes and kolkhozes – after all this, would any of us have believed that most people in the world would settle gratefully for a little honesty, a little competence in government?

We sleep our lives away.