Dream Quotes

“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
― Arthur Machen, The Terror

“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Her passions were narrow but deep.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Magic tumbled from her pretty lips and when she spoke the language of the universe– the stars sighed in unison.”
― Michael Faudet

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”
― Gabriel García Márquez , Ojos de perro azul

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”
― Philippe Forest

“Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Was I asleep? Had I slept?”
― Samuel Beckett

“The possibility of the dream gives strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.”
― Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes

“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known”
― Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes I feel proud of myself, not because of any success I’ve achieved, but because I’m aware of all the difficulties that I have suffered or went through.

I’m an eyewitness at all the fear, weakness, frustration, failure, depression, refraction and bad luck moments that I’ve been through alone and which affected significantly but never was able to beat me for so long.

This is why I’m proud, because I’m here now stronger that yesterday, I'm still able to stand and continue on my way, still following up my dreams, still trying my best to build better future for me and my family and I will never ever give up!”
― Shadi Kamal Kandil

“Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind.

I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

“Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone”
― Fola, The Seed

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
― James Dean

“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself, and her death gave her voice power it didn’t have in life. She was pure, like your father. We, you and I” — he touches my chest with the back of his index finger — “are dirty. We are made for blood. Rough hands. Dirty hearts. We are lesser creatures in the grand scheme of things, but without us men of war, no one except those of Lykos would hear Eo’s song. Without our rough hands, the dreams of the pure hearts would never be built.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.”
― Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book

“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”
― Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

“I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave, the type a leprechaun might offer a pixie who was floating by on a maple leaf. "Well, hi there," I whispered.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“أصحاب العقول العظيمة لديهم أهداف وغايات، أما الآخرون فيكتفون بالأحلام.”
― واشطن إرفنج

“Some dream it, some do it, some do both.”
― Walt Disney

“The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds