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Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: "Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.") It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.
— Auliq Ice
In his sovereignty, God looked down through history and specifically chose you to be the father of your child. He decided no one else could raise that boy or girl better than you. In all of history, there were no other guys better equipped to lead our children through this wilderness than you and I could. He’s put a lot of faith in us and he’s the ultimate strategic planner.
— Tez Brooks, The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce
The criminalization of a non-custodial in not uncommon; such extreme measures of the divorce and post-divorce process can be described as common practice. Stephen Baskerville describes this consequence of no-fault in the article, “Divorced from Reality.
— H. Kirk Rainer, A Father and Future Felon
A divorce is much like a ten-car pile up. It affects not just two drivers but a whole slew of perimeter vehicles that get caught in the chaos. Not even innocent bystanders come out unscathed.
— Tez Brooks, The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce
On the eve of our marriage, there might have been good reason to really ask, “What is marriage?” Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy—can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents’ failed relationship as well as my own as his child? What is certain is that marriage was not to be a commitment or covenant.
— H. Kirk Rainer, A Once and Always Father
Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.
— Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse
Virtually every church tradition, by theology, interpretive strategies, or pastoral practice, makes accommodations for divorced people who seek to remarry. These accommodations permit divorced people to enter unions that are outside the rule laid down in the Bible. But we can't have it both ways. We can't apply a strict "biblical marriage" rule to gay people and not apply it to those who are divorced and remarried.
— Ken Wilson, A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender in the company of Jesus
Love is not blind but it leads to blindness.
— Auliq Ice
The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
— Cokie Roberts
People often equate divorce with failure. No one wants to admit to failure, but sometimes it is inevitable. The alternative is a far worse option.
— Ritu Lalit, Wrong, for the right reasons
I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than she expected.
— A. Petrov
Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.
— Lorrie Moore
Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.
— Auliq Ice
When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.
— Auliq Ice
A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won't get tossed.
— Auliq Ice
THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.
— Amy Poehler
Divorce can be a very destructive force and high powered, professional career women, like myself, don't have the luxury of time to fall apart. We want an alternative to months in therapy - something which will hold us together whilst helping us heal around our busy schedules that will also enable us to build healthy, future relationships which are drama-free.
— Adele Theron
People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love. Divorce seems as if it will last forever, and then suddenly, one day, your children grow up, move out, and make lives for themselves, and except for an occasional flare, you have no contact at all with your ex-husband. The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it’s over.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.
— Liane Moriarty, Three Wishes
The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.
— Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters
Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie-and television-addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing -- then getting mad when a poor, scraggly husband comes in tired and sweaty from working like a dog all day, looking for some food.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to understand
— Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road
FatherMichael:OK we should get on with this; I don’t want to be late for my 2 o’clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be married?LonelyLady:Yes.SureOne:I could give more than one reason.Buttercup:Hell yes.SoOverHim:DON’T DO IT!
— Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
They hadnt enjoyed each others company in years. Talking led to screaming and both were sick of the fights.
— Barbara Becker Holstein
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife
— Shelley Winters
Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.
— Caroline Abbott, A Journey Through Emotional Abuse: From Bondage to Freedom
You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice
— Mark Rubinstein, Mad Dog Justice
She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.
— honeya
Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.
— Christine Benvenuto, Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On
Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.
— Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.
— honeya
How can you try to score a touchdown but don't take time to study? How can you expect God to lead you in the right direction of your life if you don't put in the necessary time with Him? Too many marriages end in divorce because someone wasn't dedicated to learning their Playbook.
— Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse
Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.
— Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
dear samanthai’m sorrywe have to get a divorcei know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain:it’s not youit sure as hell isn’t meit’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects doi love you.. far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our speciesi saw the way you looked at the waiter last nighti know you would never DO anything, you never do but..i saw the way you looked at the waiter last nightdid you know that when a female fly accepts the pheromones put off by a male fly, it re-writes her brain, destroys the receptors that receive pheromones, sensing the change, the male fly does the same. when two flies love each other they do it so hard, they will never love anything else ever again. if either one of them dies before procreation can happen both sets of genetic code are lost forever. now that… is dedication.after Elizabeth and i broke up we spent three days dividing everything we had bought togetherlike if i knew what pots were mine like if i knew which drapes were mine somehow the pain would go awaythis is not trueafter two praying mantises mate, the nervous system of the male begins to shut downwhile he still has control over his motor functionshe flops onto his back, exposing his soft underbelly up to his lover like a giftshe then proceeds to lovingly dice him into tiny cubesspooning every morsel into her mouthshe wastes nothingeven the exoskeleton goesshe does this so that once their children are born she has something to regurgitate to feed themnow that.. is selflessnessi could never do that for youso i have a new plani’m gonna leave you nowi’m gonna spend the rest of my life committing petty injusticesi hope you do the samei will jay walk at every opportunity i will steal things i could easily affordi will be rude to strangersi hope you do the samei hope reincarnation is reali hope our petty crimes are enough to cause us to be reborn as lesser creatures i hope we are reborn as fliesso that we can love each other as hard as we were meant to.
— Jared Singer
There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
— Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the idea, as Mom and Dad both hoped she would be, the mathematics of it seemed utterly impossible to her. What was she supposed to do, spend Christmas there and Easter here? See her dad every other holiday and one week during the summer, just enough to glimpse his new life in fragments, tiny slivers of a world she had no part in? And all the while missing out on those moments of her mom’s life—her mom, who’d done nothing to deserve to spend Christmas alone?That, it seemed to Hadley, was no way to live. Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives; or, simpler yet, if Dad would just come home. Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.
— A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower
Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages.
— Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
— Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
— Michelle Richmond, Golden State
Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
— Dave Willis
Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.pg vi
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
I'll be a son of a bitch," Patrick said.Aidan could barely make his eyes move, forcing them from the papers onto him. "What?"“I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before.""Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. "I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't.
— Laura Spinella, Perfect Timing
I'd always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World's Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don't blame her. When her dad got involved with this twenty-one year old dental hygienist, Beth got involved with the junk food aisle at the grocery store. She carried processed snack cakes the way toddlers carry teddy bears. She gained, like, twenty pounds, but I didn't think it was a big deal. I figured she'd get back to her usual weight once the shock wore off.Unfortunately, I wasn't the only person who noticed. May 14 was 'Fun and Fit Day" at Surry Middle School, so the gym was full of booths set up by local health clubs and doctors and dentists and sports leagues, all trying to entice us to not end up as couch potatoes. That part was fine. What wasn't fine was when the whole school sat down to watch the eighth-grade cheerleaders' program on physical fitness.
— Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die
Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the time Giraldus was writing, and the king was trying to secure an annulment of their marriage from the Pope. It would have been to his advantage to declare her an adulterous wife who had had carnal relations with his father, for that in itself would have rendered their marriage incestuous and would have provided prima facie grounds for its dissolution.
— Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.
— Tom Franklin, Poachers
What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.
— Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
She'd lived in the same house with this man and never once thought about his thighs in the last year.
— Sara Rosett, Elusive
He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.
— Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. 'She's an expensive filly, with double standards,' he had said. Fozzy had not listened.
— Tanya Thistleton, Just and Equitable
When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.
— Claire Cook, Time Flies
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
— Gary Chapman, Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back
—  lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.
Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way.
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
— Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.
— Debbie Ford, Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
I vow that i will never forget this once in a life time love and to know it to be the deepest part of our soul and no matter how far the wave carry us apart we will always find our way to eachother.
— Peter Adejimi
It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding--something long-strived-for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing.
— Deb Caletti, He's Gone
Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.
— Renee Smith Ettline, Peace After Divorce: Choosing Concrete Actions Rooted in Faith
WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?! Oh, right.$1500." From "Clown Porn" in "Broken Headbone
— Ginny McMath
When Ginny realized I wouldn’t ask Max for a divorce, her request became an ultimatum. One day she screamed, “Make up your mind, Simon. It’s either me or your wife, you can’t have it both ways.” She didn’t sound vulnerable like a rejected woman, she sounded shrill and demanding with a threatening tone. (terrific line) This had to end, and soon.
— Nick Hahn
But I see how he watches the stars,And he talks to people just because, And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."From "Fated" in BREATHE IN
— Eileen Granfors
It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.
— Shannon L. Alder
Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.
— Shannon L. Alder
Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.
— Lisa  Thomson, The Great Escape: A Girl's Guide To Leaving a Marriage
I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.
— James Salter
Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage
Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty toward myself & my future.
— Rossana Condoleo, Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!
You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.
— Rossana Condoleo, Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
— Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies
Life - with or without softener- is hard
— Kate Papas, Married or merry?
A divorce party--that's really better than a wedding party!
— Nujood Ali, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
— Neil S. Plakcy, Mahu
how many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep thepast itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.
— Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World
The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion.
— Kathryn Stern, Another Song About the King
One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.
— J. Robert Moskin
Hold the bottle up to the light
—  you will see your dreams are always at the bottom.
Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.
— Cheryl Nielsen
I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.
— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
There are two things you should never do alone: one is get divorced, the other is drink.
— Cheryl Nielsen
Maude regards the ones who don't make it as her own personal failures. "I guess I didn't put enough emphasis on 'until death do you part,'" she says sourly, whenever she hears about the latest divorce. "Sad to say, but some are in it just for the good times. Married folks, they gotta be like that cat's claw acacia I've got growin' in my yard. Gotta grab hard and hold on tight when the going gets rough. Only way to get through the bad times. Grab hard, hold on, and ride. No matter what.
— Susan Wittig Albert, Cat's Claw
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
People of balance age as gracefully as wines of balance.
— John Jordan Jordan Vineyard Winery
You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.
— Tom McNeal, To Be Sung Underwater
Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.
— Amy Stolls, The Ninth Wife
I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up.
— Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac
When you're corked...you're corked!
— Cheryl Nielsen
What's the truth? The truth is what happened to you and him or her, over the years, and what didn't happen. The truth is what you said and didn't say, how much you tried, how you changed, and whether you were lucky. I believe in luck. I think luck plays a huge part in success. Or failure. In the end, who cares about the truth? You still end up divorced. Finally, the biggest asshole wins. Sort of. At least the biggest asshole takes home the must stuff. If you consider this winning then have at it. You're an asshole.
— Margaret Overton, Good in a Crisis: A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Near-Death Experiences
Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault
— Louis N. Jones, The Colors Will Change
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.
— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I’m awake and dream at night of my hands on your body. And it sure as hell won’t erase that I’m terrified by how much I like you.
— Katie McGarry, Crash into You
You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin' up glowin' Fruit of jewels all shinin' in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin' in the shade, just ready for the squeezin' into green jade wine. Pure gold corn there, Blowin' in the warm air. Ol' crow nibblin' on the amnythyst seeds. In between the diamonds, Ol' man Simon crawls about pullin' out platinum weeds. Pink pearl berries, all you can carry, put 'em in a bushel and haul 'em into town. Up in the tree there's opal nuts and gold pears- Hurry quick, grab a stick and shake some down. Take a silver tater, emerald tomater, fresh plump coral melons. Hangin' in reach. Ol' man Simon, diggin' in his diamonds, stops and rests and dreams about one... real... peach.
— Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself.
— Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.
— V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
I know in my mindI would leave you nowIf I had the strength toI would leave you upTo your own devicesWill you not talkCan you take pityI don't ask muchBut won't you speakPlease.
— Dave Matthews Band, Best of Dave Matthews Band for Easy Guitar
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, Pedro Páramo
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; 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 beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I wish I could go to Paris right now.
— Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls
Before everything happened I wished i had double voice box like a song bird so I could sing two songs at once, the way a bird can harmonize with itself. I wanted to sing crystal clear notes. I wanted to sing them one after anther in ascending order. And at the same time I wanted to let another fountain of notes descend from my heart.
— Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings
McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows
— Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It is a true and terrible phrase : true, because we are all queer fellows dreaming ; and we are queer just because we dream ; terrible, because of the vastness of the unknown which it carries within itself, because it sets loose the tremendous and awful question : What if we are only queer fellows dreaming ? What if behind the veil the truth is leering and jeering at our queerness and our dreams?	What if the queer fellow of the story were right, before he dreamed ?	What if it were really all the same?What if it were all the same not once but a million times, life after life, world after world, the same pain, the same doubt, the same dreams? The queer fellow went but one day's journey along the eternal recurrence which threatens human minds and human destinies. When he returned he was queer. There was another man went the same journey. Friedrich Nietzsche dreamed this very dream in the mountains of the Engadine. When he returned he too was queer.
— John Middleton Murry, Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Critical Study
J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I’ve heard it said that he was trying to create some kind of original British mythology using the structure of other cultures’ myths, and maybe that was true. I don’t know. What I see, when I read his work, is a man trying desperately to dream.Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don’t have enough myths of our own, we’ll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it’s human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight.
— N.K. Jemisin
Oh, to awake from dreaming!
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the logical relations of things, and analyse the processes which shaped his thoughts and fancies. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
— H.P. Lovecraft
To every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!
— Tamara Henson
Perhaps that is what I like about these moments of leisurely insight, that come while lying comfortably in the beautiful in-between state of sleeping and waking, dreaming and doing, in which anything is possible and everything is lovely.
— Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn’t exactly place in a very disturbing way.These were not his memories.
— Angelo Tsanatelis, Origins
top connecting with the world. Connect with yourself on your beach. Stop thinking. Stop analyzing. Start feeling. Start dreaming.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
There are those who speak and those who dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Unless you build castles in the air, how can you make them?
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
They say “Dream Big” ,but the real concept Nothing Impossible.
— Mohamed Saad
The revelations received while dreaming usually will cause a man to begin to meditate
— Sunday Adelaja
We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.
— Boy George, Take It Like A Man: The Autobiography Of Boy George
Thundering hooves beat the frozen ground, faster and faster as the rider whipped the horse. Snow and mud lay thick on the earth, and rogue snowflakes drifted through the night sky.Celaena ran—swifter than her young legs could manage. Everything hurt, Trees ripped at her dress and hair; stones sliced her feet. She scrambled through the woods, breathing so hard she couldn't muster the air to cry for help. She must reach the bridge. It couldn't cross the bridge.Behind her, a sword shrieked as it was drawn from its sheath.She fell, slamming into mud and rock. The sound of the approaching demon filled the air as she struggled to rise. But the mud held fast, and she could not run.Reaching for a bush, her small hands bleeding, the horse now close behind, she—
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Nothing happened today. I slept. While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.
— José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion
As moonlight gently fills your room, your dreams begin to sprout, then bloom.
— Wendy Tugwood, I Love You Too, I Love You Three
Dreaming is good but dreaming without action makes you a dreamer. Stop dreaming and start acting. That is the only way to take your mental picture to a reality series that can lead to a successful venture.
— Oscar Bimpong
This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
Approaching the state of Delaware, the dreamer is a small dog, dreaming impatiently of a past life, long forgotten, when he sailed tall ships across uncharted. The salt spray of the ocean stings my face.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
I love a man who tickles me awake with reality, and kisses me goodnight with fictionBraids my hair with simplicity to compliment my contradiction And calms the waging wars inside with a simple boyish lookFor he is as much a mystery as he is an open book When I am at my worst, I am beautiful by his sideHe draws me in yet keeps me free, the moon to my tideHe relishes my quirks and antics just as much I love to keep him franticAnd if I ever fall, he doesn’t catch me right awayBecause he knows I’ll glideAnd even more so, knows how much I enjoy the ride…With the strength I lack, he holds my insecurity safe in-between his fingersAnd if there is ever a doubt while I am out running aboutHis steady grip lingersHe drives me crazy just as much as he keeps me saneAnd has the wisdom to keep me wild knowing I’ll die if ever tameSo when I am far, he frets not, because he knows he’s my favorite destination If ever I am down, he joins me on the ground and points out my favorite constellationsHe catches my sighs and lackluster repliesWith ageless humor and tenacity I draw blanks at his capacity And challenge his audacity But He wins because despite my stubbornness he is persistentYet forever fails because he belongs to nonexistent
— Yesenia Barkley
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
— Terri Guillemets
she tries to envision spaceeven with her eyes open
— Anna Jae
DREAMS are the ones that WAKE you, SHAKE you and make YOU..........................................
— Dreamer
It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it,require some similar shock.
— George MacDonald, Complete Works of George MacDonald
Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.
— Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road
I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
— Haruki Murakami
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
— Thomas Hobbes
Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.
— Tyrone Jaeger
...said Finn...“Only remember, Clare. In a dream, what you want will come out, one way or the other. ”“So . . . So I should be careful about what I want, then, right?”“No, you can’t be careful with what you want. Wanting isn’t a pet who stays at your heels; it’s a wild animal. You must become friendly with it. It will make an offer, and you will respond. Converse with what you want that way.”“So what should I try to want? What should I look for?”“Never look for what you should want and desire, but what you do want and desire. You should know that from your poetry. It is the only way to 'make' true. What you desire will appear, no matter how you try to erase or recolor it.”“All right,” said Clare. She turned her back on the ocean and the fire, and began to walk toward the dunes.
— Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road
Dreaming is escaping. Daydreaming is a form of self protection. Dissociation is Survival
— TinaJ. Richardson
The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.
— Stanley Goldyn, The Cavalier Club
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich, Lantern in Her Hand
Within a year, possibly by next fall," he was saying, "something that has never before been done, will be done. NASA will be sending men to the moon. Think of that. Men who were once in classrooms like this one will leave their footprints on the lunar surface." He paused. I leaned in close against the wall so I could hear him. "That is why you are sitting here tonight, and why you will be coming here in the months ahead. You come to dream dreams. You come to build fantastic castles up in the air. And you come to learn how to build the foundations that make those castles real. When the men who will command that mission were boys your age, no one knew. But in a few months, that's what will happen. So, twenty years from now, what will people say of you? 'No one knew then that this kid Washington Irving High School would grow up to do'...what? What castle will you build?
— Gary D. Schmidt
Let me fly in your own sky, soaring and grasping your tranquil thoughts, touching your dreams with my sincere prayers.
— Ibaa Younis
Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life.
— Sunday Adelaja
I imagine you dream of me on the nights I dream of you. I'm always so confused by the platonic way we enjoy each other’s company. We talk about so many things that I can't recall when I wake up. How did you get me pregnant last night? We never touch in my dreams.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
I dream of things I know nothing about.
— Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours
to be still in the darkness to celebrate the lack of lightto see beauty where the patterns are stern gray austere still lifesthis is the quest for those who slumber beneath the dreaming treewaiting, waiting, waiting for signs of spring
— Becca Horne, Seasons of a Southern Moon: Poems & Ponderings
I wish you were here,” I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that’s what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him." - Gaston Bachelard, "Reveries on Reverie (Anima - Animus)", The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, Page 88
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie
Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
— Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer
Beguildy looked at me over the rim of a great measure of mead. 'Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em, my wench,' he said.
— Mary Webb, Precious Bane
If you keep on dreaming, you'll never achieve anything. But if you start hardworking, I know you will do
— Jordan Lapaan
(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)
— Theodore Roethke
If you never dream of flying, then you'll never wake up with wings.
— Natalie Kendall
A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?
— Roman Payne, Europa: Limited Time Edition
If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.
— Alice Bag
There is a majesty to lucid dreaming that is almost beyond words. To find yourself present and aware in another world, a universe within your own mind, is simply so far removed from our daily "normal" experiences that it can quite literally take your breath away.
— Daniel Love
If the Gods give up on you, will you continue?
— Jack Thanatos, The Gods of Chaos: Dreaming
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
— Robert Moss, Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom
A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.
— Jan Jansen
Look outside of what is possible and think about what could be.
— Dillon Foley
I don't remember everything that happened, and I'm looking forward to the tale. But I know, I feel, that it was good. Even if I did die. It was a damn excellent dream.
— Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait,the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
— Michael  Anthony, Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
— John Lennon
When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.
— Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools— all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species. The San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and my own hometown paper, The Washington Post, have all closed their weekend book review sections, leaving books orphaned and stranded, poor cousins to television and the movies. In a sign of the times, the Bloomberg News website recently transferred its book coverage to the Luxury section, alongside yachts, sports clubs and wine, as if to signal that books are an idle indulgence of the super-rich. But if there is one thing that should not be denied to anyone rich or poor it is the opportunity to dream.
— Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking, toward the godsquid he knew was there, tentacular fleshscape and the moon-sized eye that he never saw but knew, as if the core of the fucking planet was not searing metal but mollusc, as if what we fall toward when we fall, what the apple was heading for when Newton's head got in the way, was kraken.
— China Miéville, Kraken
Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That’s when they’re honest.
— Donna Lynn Hope
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
— Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The worst part about dreaming? You have to wake up.
— George Aaron Navaja
When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.
— Donna Lynn Hope