dreams
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
9 thoughts from Vladimir Nabokov
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
10 more quotes from Booker T. Washington
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
20 wisdom & wit from Anatole France
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
27 wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
3 quotes from Jane Roberts
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
3 views from Jane Roberts
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
13 more thoughts from James M. Barrie
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
2 other quotes from Joseph Heller
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
9 quotes from Margaret Fuller
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
3 views from Lorraine Hansberry
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
10 quotes from Novalis
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
2 other quotes from Rudolph Valentino
But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
4 thoughts from Gilda Radner
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
2 more quotes from M. C. Escher
In dreams begins responsibility.
28 views from William Butler Yeats
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
4 more views from Paul Gauguin
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
15 more sayings from Norman Cousins
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
5 quotes from Gaston Bachelard
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
28 other views from William Butler Yeats
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
7 views from Judy Garland
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
6 more views from Elias Canetti
Dream in a pragmatic way.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Dreaming men are haunted men.
2 sayings from Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
2 thoughts from Matthew Prior
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
5 views from Frida Kahlo
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
6 quotes from Abraham Cahan
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
2 views from Ernst Fischer
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
19 thoughts from Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
6 quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
6 other views from H. P. Lovecraft
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
2 more wisdom & wit from Man Ray
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
2 other thoughts from Man Ray
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
6 other quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
10 more thoughts from Max Beerbohm
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 other thoughts from Sara Teasdale
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
15 other views from Walter Scott
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
4 other sayings from Peter McWilliams
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
10 views from Max Beerbohm
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
12 views from Malcolm Forbes
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
6 quotes from Emil Zatopek
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
6 more sayings from Emil Zatopek
My dreams are all follies.
10 quotes from Taylor Caldwell
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
63 other sayings from Samuel Johnson
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
24 more views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
16 sayings from Wallace Stevens
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
13 quotes from Jean Rostand
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
4 views from Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
4 more quotes from Jonas Salk
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
28 views from Napoleon Hill
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
16 sayings from Paul Valery
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
4 other views from Jonas Salk
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
2 other quotes from Lope de Vega
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
2 thoughts from Eugene Ionesco
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
29 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
13 more quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
5 sayings from Marya Mannes
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
11 other quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
4 wisdom & wit from Paracelsus
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
4 other quotes from Paracelsus
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
11 quotes from Manuel Puig
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
14 more sayings from Joseph Conrad
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
5 quotes from Black Elk
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
4 sayings from Paracelsus
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
11 other quotes from Manuel Puig
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
5 sayings from Jean Genet
All men of action are dreamers.
2 wisdom & wit from James Huneker
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
19 more sayings from Edgar Allan Poe
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
6 other quotes from Zhuangzi
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
11 sayings from Douglas MacArthur
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
12 thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
3 more thoughts from Edward Kennedy
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
12 other quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
12 quotes from John Barrymore
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
25 more quotes from Simone Weil
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
5 sayings from Amy Lowell
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
8 more quotes from James Dean
Dreams are necessary to life.
21 thoughts from Anais Nin
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
4 other quotes from Henry Reed
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
21 other views from Anais Nin
Dreams seem to have a will of their own.
4 quotes from Henry Reed
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
73 views from Victor Hugo
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
7 more wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
7 thoughts from Langston Hughes
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
2 quotes from Ernst Mach
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
21 other wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
6 sayings from Charles Lindbergh
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
47 views from Abraham Lincoln
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
5 other quotes from Theodore Sturgeon
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
5 quotes from Amy Lowell
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
26 more quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
6 thoughts from Ella Maillart
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
3 quotes from Marian Anderson
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
6 more thoughts from Jack Kerouac
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
9 more views from Lawrence Welk
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
3 thoughts from Stephane Mallarme
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
9 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
11 quotes from Rene Descartes
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
3 quotes from Herbert Kaufman
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
2 more quotes from Olive Schreiner
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
2 quotes from Mary Webb