Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

dreams

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

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.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

All men of action are dreamers.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

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.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

My dreams are all follies.

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

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.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.