Dream Quotes

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

George Carlin

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

Amy Tan

"I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night,"said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?""Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something,"said Harry."

J.K. Rowling

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."

Stephanie Laurens

"We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems."

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?"

Amy Tan

"That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)"

Ally Condie

"Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. No words were exchanged, but we spoke with our eyes. My eyes said, “I love you,” while your eyes told me, “I’m asleep.” You always were more romantic than me."

Jarod Kintz

"If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked."

Gilles Deleuze

"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."

Jarod Kintz

"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."

Edgar Allan Poe

"I morphed from a fly to a flower to a butterfly, which is like a combination flower and fly. I thought I was in love, but I was merely asleep."

Jarod Kintz

"I slept through the award presentation for Napper of the Year. They had to wake me when I won. Winning was like a dream come true."

Jarod Kintz

"I sleep when I blink. I dream like I love—continuously."

Jarod Kintz

"A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. Our relationship faded from red to white, and somewhere in the middle, in the pink zone, I told you I loved you and you returned it. However, at white, our relationship went black and I sought red in the arms of another woman."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. You took a cruise, and I took a canoe. I paddled alongside your ship out into the Atlantic Ocean and down to the Caribbean. I shouted “I love you” the whole way, but you couldn’t hear me, probably because that man you were with was talking the whole time."

Jarod Kintz

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."

Edgar Allan Poe

"In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever."

Lauren Oliver

"If a company won't hire you, why don't you start your own company? Steve Jobs created jobs, he didn't apply for them. #Startup your dreams."

Jarod Kintz

"Every day I type out my dream scribbles from the night before, looking for treasure buried deep in my subconscious."

Jarod Kintz

"When we were we, with you is the only place I wanted to be. When we were just two separate souls, I used to dream of a place where we'd come together as one.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

Jarod Kintz

"It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered."

Mary E. Pearson

"You're a dream. Like everything else."

Kelly Creagh

"When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!"

Louis Tomlinson

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."

Anatole France

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"

Criss Jami

"Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish."You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do."

Mark Gorman

"Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it."

Antonio Machado

"Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality."

Santosh Kalwar

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."

Antonio Machado

"I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain."

Richard Brautigan

"I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,You see me there."

Robinson Jeffers

"The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality."

Henri Bergson

"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."

David Rovics

"Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?"

T.F. Hodge

"I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love."

Haruki Murakami

"The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly."

Israelmore Ayivor

"My dream, is to dream, a dream."

Santosh Kalwar

"I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant and I only had enough money in my wallet to pay for two. So being the gentleman I am, I suggested that we skip out on the bill after we were finished eating."

Jarod Kintz

"Those who look behind will never see beyond."

Sherry K. White

"Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story."

Charlotte Eriksson

"The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world."

Mike Norton

"Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess."

Truth Devour

"I had a dream about you. You were writing names and numbers in a book, and I asked if that was a phone book or the Book of Life. You answered in a way that blinded me with light, and I grew afraid. So I said, “Hey, what is that over there?” and I pointed over your shoulder, and when you turned to look I scribbled my name on the bottom of page one."

Jarod Kintz

"Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying."

Steve Goodier

"Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good.And now, think why."

Vera Nazarian

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