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Quotes About Dream

It's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep
~ Herman Melville
But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of Saco.
~ Herman Melville
If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on.
~ Herman Melville
Clarel the mentor frequent heard The time for Christ's return allot: A dream, and like a dream it blurred The sense- faded, and was forgot.
~ Herman Melville
Dream, oh dream! As long as we are at our versing we do not go away, as long as we remain steadfast in the interrealm of our night-day we present one another with every dream-hope, with all longed-for communion, with every hope of love, and therefore, my little brother, for the sake of that hope, for the sake of that yearning, never again depart from me.
~ Hermann Broch
Astyages had a daughter called Mandane, and he dreamed one night that she urinated in such enormous quantities that it filled his city and swamped the whole of Asia.
~ Herodotus
With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take the city of Priam then, that very day, the fool.
~ Homer
There was a world ... or was it all a dream?
~ Homer
As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs 200  from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear.
~ Homer
for a dream, too, is from Zeus
~ Homer
Borneo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Bream
~ Homer
Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.
~ Howard Thurman
Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.
~ Hwang S?k-y?ng
Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?
~ Iain Banks
The next day was a dream of such perfection that I have never approached the like again. It was, of course, all illusion, but I like to think of it still in isolation from what came after,as a moment of bliss, one of those days when on is no longer oneself, but becomes bigger, and better, able to overcome the normal preoccupations of life and breathe more freely.
~ Iain Pears
I did very much hope that he wasn't frittering away his time on nonsense when he had a fantasy to dream about.
~ Iain Pears
ugly night swim, had built up tensions that could only be eased by sleep and solitude. He went out like a light Ã¢â'¬â€œ to dream of Domino being pursued by a shark with dazzling white teeth that suddenly became Largo, Largo who turned on him with those huge hands. They were coming closer, they reached slowly for him, they had him by the shoulder …
~ Ian Fleming
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.
~ Ian Mcewan
But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it's tantalisingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes.
~ Ian Mcewan
part of a daydream's enticement was the illusion that she was helpless before its logic
~ Ian Mcewan
This was insomniac memory, not a dream. Frowning with concern, she took his free hand in hers and began to lead him across the room.
~ Ian Mcewan
In the Autumn of the twentieth century, it came about at last, the first step towards the fulfilment of an ancient dream, the beginning of the long lesson we would teach ourselves that however complicated we were, however faulty and difficult to describe in even our simplest actions and mode of being, we could be imitated and bettered.
~ Ian Mcewan
I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.
~ Ilona Andrews
He glanced at me, his eyes dark. Would you rather talk about your dream? No. Considering that I was featured in it, I think I deserve to know the particulars. Were my clothes missing because we were in bed? Was I touching you? He glanced at me. His voice could've melted the clothes off my body. Were you touching me?
~ Ilona Andrews