Dream Quotes - Page 27

• What happened to a dream without a dreamer?

  Janet Fitch

  Dreamer, Happened

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• ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Lying, Fall, Men

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• My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Stupid, Poetic

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• The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Long, Waiting, Doe

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• I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight.

  Holly Black

  Strong, Coffee, Eye

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• I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

  Cameron Dokey

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

  Kij Johnson

  Lonely, Stars, Clever

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Perfect, Black

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• Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Boys, People

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• Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” “But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when I’m thinking about her.” “Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Sleep, Boys

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

  John Boyne

  Night, Silence, Together

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• There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

  Lord Dunsany

  Home, Men, Sea

  Lord Dunsany (2008). “Dreams Assembled: the Collected Early Dreams of Lord Dunsany”, p.336, Lulu.com

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• You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

  Kate Morton

  Memories, Night, Bed

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.706, Simon and Schuster

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• There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.

  Juan Rulfo

  Morning, Memories, Night

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• What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lissa. "I hear that from women a lot," said Adrian. Christian made a gagging sound, but the faintest glimmer of a smile crossed Eddie's lips, despite his otherwise tough guardian-stance.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Lips, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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• She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Thinking, Pity Love

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

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• The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

  Stephen King

  Way, Dark Tower, Knows

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks. There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart. There is mystery unfolding.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Healing, Heart

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• "What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

  Richelle Mead

  Needs, Faces, Need You

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Mad, Desire

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

  Hjalmar Söderberg

  Shadow, And Love, Littles

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• It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Heart, Kissing, Knives

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• All our dreams begin in youth.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Youth, Our Dreams

  Heinrich Harrer (1997). “Seven Years in Tibet”, Tarcher

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• And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Mind, Shadow

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.53, Penguin Books India

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