quotations about dreams & dreaming
When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.
FRED ROGERS
You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers
My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
OSCAR WILDE
The Critic as Artist
One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.
ZIG ZIGLAR
Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
AMY HEMPEL
"The Dog of the Marriage"
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
GLEN COOK
Water Sleeps
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
CARL JUNG
Man and His Symbols
Dreams make all men authors.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
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Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation's Edge
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOT
Theophrastus Such
Don't let your reality change your dreams, let your dreams change reality.
ANONYMOUS
People have dreams all the time. It don't mean nothin.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The Crossing
Dreams fade with morning light,
Never a morn for thee,
Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
JOYCE KILMER
"The Poet's Epitaph"
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
CARL JUNG
Psychology of the Unconscious
The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"