Quotes About Dreams

I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason.

The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky by John Barnes.

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)

Well, dreams are all lost, Herman said to himself. Each day begins with amnesia.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Tenía un pie en la ilusión obligada y otro en la realidad secreta

El ardor de ese beso no los abandonó en muchos días y llenó de fantasmas delicados sus noches, dejando su recuerdo en la piel, como una quemadura. La alegría de ese encuentro los transportaba levitando por la calle, los impulsaba a reír sin causa aparente, los despertaba sobresaltados en la mitad de un sueño. Se tocaban los labios con las puntas de los dedos y evocaban exactamente la forma de la boca del otro.

She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.

Mis pesadillas son un viaje a ciegas hacia las umbrosas cavernas donde duermen mis recuerdos mas antiguos, bloqueados en los estratos profundos de la conciencia.

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela.

Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.

La mujer amada nunca existió, la había construido con sueños.

I didn't get to prepare myself as well as I would've liked, and now there's a lady, who must be death, sitting at the foot of my bed, motioning for me to follow her. I can't distinguish clearly between night and day, and it doesn't matter, because pain and memory aren't measured with clocks. The morphine puts me to sleep and transports me to the dimension of dreams and visions.

adormidera, como me aconsejaban las monjas del hospital

C'erano giorni in cui rimaneva imbrigliato negli incubi senza mai svegliarsi del tutto.

Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside me and leaves me trembling. Other times I wake up sweating with images in my head, as vivid as if they were real. In the dream I see myself running naked, screaming voicelessly, in a labyrinth of narrow alleys that coil like serpents, buildings with blank doors and windows, not a soul to ask for help, my body burning, my feet bleeding, bile in my mouth, all alone.

Deseaba ser como Alma y vivir en una realidad manejable, donde los problemas tenían causa, efecto y solución, donde no existían seres terroríficos agazapados en los sueños ni enemigos lujuriosos espiando en cada esquina.

pero no se puede mandar en la memoria ni en las pesadillas.

She who passes by rosemary and doesn't pick it neither had love nor dreams of it.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)

It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren't necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.

Maybe we'll never reach that perfect zenith you imagine in your dreams, but I sure as hell will die trying.