Peter S. Beagle Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Unicorn, Broken Dreams

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Lasts, Unicorn

• We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, History, Honor

• Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Sleep, Daylight

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Real, Moving

• You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Heart, Eye

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Twilight, Honor

• Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Lonely, Hero

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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