Dream Quotes - Page 23

• In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God.

  James Lee Burke

  Past, Light, Land

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rose, Dolphins, Mutts

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.690, Scholastic UK

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• When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

  Edwin Morgan

  Rain, Love You, Half

  Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press

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• But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

  Werner Herzog

  Scratches, Would Be, Nerves

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

  Tonya Hurley

  Expectations, Energy, Needs

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Homecoming”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Wall, Mind, Substance

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.

  Ruskin Bond

  Moving, Sprung Up, Tree

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• There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Success, Reality, People

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Autumn, Years

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• And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice

  Gaelen Foley

  Thinking, Want, Assuming

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

  Ben Elton

  Wake Up, Gears, Changed

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• I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

  Muriel Spark

  Character, Wonder, Ifs

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• he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hero, Stills

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

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• Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.

  Alyson Noel

  Girl, Years, Sitting

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• I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Necks, Fingers, Ifs

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• Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Reality, Wind, Long

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• Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Book, Bridges

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

  Janette Rallison

  Crush, Boys, Air

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Believe, Eye

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.29, Penguin

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• In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

  Bono

  Swim, Sorrow, Drowning

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• breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Drinking, Sleep, Breathing

  Guy de Maupassant (1968). “Bel-Ami”

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Sleep, Two

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Shows

  "New York Is Killing Me: The unlikely survival of Gil Scott-Heron" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. August 09, 2010.

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• Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

  Sylvia Plath

  Past, Here I Am, Gone

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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