Our Dreams Quotes - Page 15

• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fate, Wells

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• Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Dream

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Struggle, Views

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Reality, Other Worlds

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.78, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Dream, Land, Joy

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• We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dream, Order, One Day

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.50, New World Library

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• We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Fate, Destiny

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

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• He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Our Lives

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Dream, Thinking

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Dream

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• Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Heart, Sight

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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

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• Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Adversity, World

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.370, Random House

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• Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Fate, Phrases

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.381, Vintage

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• And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

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• Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Giving Up, People

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• Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Adventure, Soul

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• Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Inspirational, Dream, Eye

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• How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

  Robin Hobb

  Dream, Reality, Perception

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.75, HarperCollins UK

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• Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Dream, Lying

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