Don DeLillo Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Country, Men

  Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.189, Penguin

• The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Thinking, Energy

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

• It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Reality

  Don DeLillo (1973). “Americana”, Pocket

• Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Morning, Powerful

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

• America was and is the immigrant's dream.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, America, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Reality, Needs

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