Quotes About Dreams

She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong.

I dreamt of going on the stage once, he said, looking crestfallen. It's never too late, I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.