Quotes About Dreams

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'