Dream Quotes - Page 28

• You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Businessman, Sun Also Rises, Ought

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• A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

  Juliet Marillier

  Keys, World, Waking

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Cybele's Secret”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Thinking, Ideas

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• There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

  Sue Townsend

  Listening To Others, People, Problem

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• Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Passion, Cells

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.158, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

  Candace Bushnell

  Next, Firsts, Sanity

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• That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

  Fannie Flagg

  Honey, Used, Living On

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.250, Random House

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• I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

  Judith McNaught

  Black, World, Proud

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• when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lying, Boys, Confusion

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Continual Condition: Poems”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, Dark, Perfect

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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Heart, Sleep

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• As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.

  Wendell Berry

  Morning, Night, Wind

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.179, Counterpoint Press

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• I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Believe, Eye, Journey

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”

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• We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

  Helen Hollick

  Children, Growing Up, Dust

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• While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Silly, Sleep, Would Be

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1368, Dell

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• If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

  Bob Dylan

  Guillotine, My Thoughts, Ifs

  Song: It's Alright, Ma

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• Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

  Dean Karnazes

  Passion, Emotional, People

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.78, Atlantic Books

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• I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Loss, Reflection

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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• We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Hands, Race, Vision

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• I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

  Stephen King

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Red". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Beautiful, Running, Book

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• Maybe one night I’ll be asleep and I’ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don’t try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don’t be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Mom, Eye, Night

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• Don't leave me, Rainbow Girl." Rainbow Girl. Was that who I was? It seemed so long ago. I smiled faintly. "Remember the skirt I wore to Mallucé's the night you told me to dress Goth?" "It's upstairs in your closet. Never throw it away. It looked like a wet dream on you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Night, Long Ago

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.592, Delacorte Press

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• There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

  Gregory Maguire

  Clouds, Cities, May

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• Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.~Dork Diaries

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Magic, Diaries, Littles

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