Quotes About Dreams

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

No aristocrat would sit in the wild grass to dream. Aristocrats have gardens for that, if they dream at all.

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

This what chance will do, children, trample over all your dreams, swing a bony ankle in front of you.

He wants your search to be complete and thorough, because you are discerning and will not settle for second best. If you are in a hurry, he'll think: "She's insecure and needs to fill a void. She cannot be alone." "I'm just filling a position. She needs me to write checks for her dreams.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path—herself included—could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.

This time he forgot everything. He only stood and stared. That smile. Christ, that smile. He recognized it by the wave of ecstatic joy that all but knocked him flat on his back. Had he though himself incapable of happiness in a sustained basis? He was wrong — and how. He could never have enough of this sweet elation. He wanted to splash in it, swim in it, drink it by the gallons, until nothing but bliss pulsed in his veins. The girl of his dreams. He had met her at last.

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these things he was an outlaw in his community. The community tolerated him. His own sons tolerated him.

One of the blessings of the internet is that the contents of the collective unconscious, formerly only accessible via dreams and myths, are now more widely accessible. You are far from alone with your anxiety, no matter how it manifests.

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.

My only regret is not having dreamed more. I got my life as a gift. I'll give it up without an overdraft.

The bigger the dreams and aspirations a person has, the younger he is!

Crystal shoes And a mare to ride on, A milk white mare, And a silver woven in my hair.

We might meet again, someday between dreams at dawn.

We'll shake, we'll shake the tree of dreams, That solitary tree of dreams In the centre of the verdant field.

Ambitions are the Dreams we Believe can be fulfilled

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.