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Quotes About Dream

Live the life you've dreamed.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't.
~ Henry Ford
A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.
~ Henry Gleitman
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
~ Henry James
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
~ Henry James
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
~ Henry Kissinger
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his personal hope, Princess Marya had in the deepest recesses of her soul a hidden dream and hope, which provided the main comfort of her life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now his passion was even doing battle with his love
~ Leo Tolstoy
Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life is a dream, death is an awakening.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Il est doux de rêver à un idéal et de le bâtir dans sa pensée. Mais c'est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose. Qu'est-ce qu'un idéal qui n'est qu'un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ? Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l'existence.
~ Leon Degrelle
Era preciso, pues, buscar el olvido en el sueño de la vida.
~ Léon Tolstoï
If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.
~ Leona Lewis
The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.
~ Leonard Cohen
No sospeché la insignificancia de mi sueño. Creí haber concebido el sueño más vasto de mi generación: quse ser mago. Ésa era mi idea de la gloria. He aquí una súplica basada en toda mi experiencia: no seas mago, sé mágico.
~ Leonard Cohen
Across that midnight landscape he rides with his toppling burden of despair and hope, bearing with him the beast's face and the dream, but unable to cast off either or to believe in either. For he is man, the changeling, in whom the sense of goodness has not perished, nor an eye for some supernatural guidepost in the night.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
The technology which, in our culture, has released urban and even rural man from the quiet before his hearth log has debauched his taste. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.
~ Leonid Andreyev
This is a love letter to a nightmare.
~ Leonora Carrington
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
~ LeRoy Neiman
You must give yourself love and open yourself to the possibilities of life. Whatever your dream, know that is possible to change your life and go after it. March Aurelius said, "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Les Brown