Quotes About Dreams

All men, if they are honest, are scared of the dark. The arrival of light, even a glimmer under the edge of a door, lifts the spirit in a way that can't be described, because it dates back to a time before language. Hope returns, night terrors evaporate. You smile at the childishness of it all, the demons who haunted your sleep. It was just a dream.

Her life's work was a fantastical pipe dream to the backers who had sanctioned the project but were now cutting back on what they considered frivolous expenditures.

Just remember, Callum when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

If woman dreams true, and shares her dream with the men who are close to her, these same men will find their greatest joy and sense of completeness in the service of her vision. It has always been so, and will always be so.

How can you love a woman in your arms if you are busy holding another one in your dreams?

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Me fui dando cuenta de que soñar es como caminar entre voces que flotan y pasos que resuenan. Como caminar por una ciudad que conociste y has olvidado. A veces hay esquinas donde se puede encontrar lo que has perdido. A veces algo muy lindo, otras veces algo que es mejor no recordar.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

If you are a parent, how do you differentiate offering your children advice and guidance from imposing your dreams upon them?

Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.

One day, I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

At night, Paul became part of an imaginary world where he felt happy, in the company of characters who had become his friends. When he was writing, anything was possible.

Una pesadilla es un sueño que ha envejecido mal

Toate visele au pretul lor

En el largo periplo que te espera, no pierdas nunca tu alma de niño, no olvides nunca tus sueños; serán el motor de tu existencia, formarán el sabor y el olor de tus mañanas.

Sein Flugzeug ist so hoch in den Himmel geflogen, dass es an den Sternen hängen geblieben ist.

l'enfance a ses vertus. Elle nous sert à construire les fondations de nos rêves et de nos vies. C'est dans cette mémoire que tu viendras puiser tes forces, fouiller tes colères, entretenir tes passions, et bien souvent repousser les frontières de tes peurs, et de tes limites.

I sogni sognati in due diventano i ricordi più belli. La solitudine è un giardino dove l'anima inaridisce, dove i fiori non hanno profumo.