Quotes About Dreams

He had known for a while that certain episodes he dreamed could not be his own.

You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are 'yours' and which are 'mine.' It's past sorting out. Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow pg 140)

The toothaches got worse, she dreamed of disembodied voices from whose malignance there was no appeal, the soft dusk of mirrors out of which something was about to walk, and empty rooms that waited for her. Your gynecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.

They saw white Brutality enough, at the Cape of Good Hope. They can no better understand it now, than then. Something is eluding them. Whites in both places are become the very Savages of their own worst Dreams, far out of Measure to any Provocation.

Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.

asleep. He fell asleep during Nibelungen.

Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.

Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.

When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings...

E' nel sogno che le anime respirano, che s'intrufola la grandezza dell'uomo.

Those fields of childhood, tall Meadow-grass and flowers small, The elm whose dusky leaves Patterned the sky with dreams innumerable And labyrinthine vein and vine And wandering tendrils green, Have grown a seed so small A single thought contains them all

Everyday life is a life lived on the level of surging affects, impacts suffered or barely avoided. It takes everything we have. But it also spawns a series of little somethings dreamed up in the course of things.

He was in love with aspects of her. Andre wasn't capable of expressing himself like other people. He dreamt in smells, he heard music in colours.

Is there anything more haunting than the ambitions of youth?

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Insomnia is the wish to be immortal, granted by an ass.

I don't go to graduate school. Instead, I move to New York, the city where I naively imagine writers must go.

But as soon as she came here . . . she knew that she had lost what she wanted, that the life she had as a girl was the one she desired always, that she had no need of a prince, but only her dreams of a prince.

And if you can't imagine, nothing will ever happen.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney