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Quotes About Dreams

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.
~ Nicolas Manetta
I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.
~ Jim Carrey
Life is a battlefield of broken dreams and pieced-together victories.
~ Terri Guillemets
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
~ Charles Dickens
Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? See the stitches curve and crawl Round the cunning seams— Patterns thin and sweet and small As a lady's dreams.
~ Dorothy Parker
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
~ Terri Guillemets, 1997
The gaze of nature, when thus awakened, dreams and pulls the poet after its dream. Words, too, can have an aura of their own.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
I yearn to fall asleep to the rose-scented burning-pink smoke and dreamy aromas of soul-poetry, so that I wake to a poem-tinted dawn and morning's sweet fragrance lays out my new day's path in flowers of purpose and joy.
~ Terri Guillemets
Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows...
~ Claudia Adrienne Grandi, 1974
she has books in her lap and ideas in her head she has colorful dreams when she reads in bed
~ Terri Guillemets
Bedtime reading is a doorway to dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Books at bedtime, most enchanting Half-asleep, dipping our cozy feet Into fantasy and dreams so sweet.
~ Terri Guillemets
Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
~ Jules de Gaultier
Hear ye, intruders! Beware of guard dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
~ Author Unknown
If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.
~ Author Unknown
Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.
~ Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2008
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man... sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What hath night to do with sleep?
~ John Milton
I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world
~ Grace Coddington
I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.
~ Grace Coddington
City of Bright Moonlight.
~ Grace Lin