Dream Quotes

“مَنْ كان ذا حلمٍ و طالَ بهِ المَدى، فليحمِهِ/ و ليحمِ أيضاً نفسَهُ مِن حلمِه/ فالحلمُ يكبرُ أشهراً في يومِه/ و يزيدُ دينُ الدهرِ حتى يستَحيل/ فإذا استحالَ ترى ابن آدم راضياً... منْ أي شيءٍ بالقليل”
― تميم البرغوثي

“Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño:
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca, La vida es sueño / El alcalde de Zalamea

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.”
― Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining

“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
― Robert H. Goddard

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.”
― Stan Laurel

“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.”
― Roy Bennett

“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”
― Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”
― Dom Helder Camara

“And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.”
― Jeff Sampson, Vesper

“To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.”
― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

“What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he was. "It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape. It is more like a story-telling machine. Sensory information is broken down into shards of perception, which are broken down again to be stored as memory fragments. And at night, as the body rests, these fragments are brought out from storage, reassembled and replayed. Each run-through etches them deeper into the brain's neural structure. And each time a memory is rehearsed or recalled it is elaborated. We may add a little, lose a little, tinker with the logic, fill in sections that have faded, perhaps even conflate disparate events.

"In extreme cases, we refer to this as confabulation. The brain creates and recreates the past, producing, in the end, a version of events that may bear little resemblance to what actually occurred. To first order, I believe it's true to say that everything I remember is false.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”
― John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

“Human history is a Gaian dream.”
― Terence McKenna

“Impian itu seperti sayap. Dia membawamu pergi ke berbagai tempat. Kurasa, mamamu sadar akan hal itu. Dia tahu, kalau dia mencegah mimpimu, itu sama aja dengan memotong sayap burung. Burung tersebut memang nggak akan lari, tapi burung tanpa sayap sudah bukan burung lagi. Dan manusia tanpa mimpi, sudah bukan manusia lagi.”
― Windhy Puspitadewi, Let Go

“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

“You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream.”
― Mouloud Benzadi مولود بن زادي

“Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?"
He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?"
"What?"
"Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?"
"I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.”
― Rachel Caine, Firestorm