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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Ojos de perro azul
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell
Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
— Jon Acuff, Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself, and her death gave her voice power it didn’t have in life. She was pure, like your father. We, you and I” — he touches my chest with the back of his index finger — “are dirty. We are made for blood. Rough hands. Dirty hearts. We are lesser creatures in the grand scheme of things, but without us men of war, no one except those of Lykos would hear Eo’s song. Without our rough hands, the dreams of the pure hearts would never be built.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in yourself and create a world where dreams become reality.
— Charlene A. Wilson
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching.I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.
— Fernando Pessoa
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
— Wolfgang Riebe, 100 Quotes to Make You Think!
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
— Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.
— Paulo Coelho
To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.
— Hans Selye
If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
— John Lennon
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
— Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology
Jack's doctors have told him he is crazy… but, the truth is, it's the Voices who are crazy, not him.
— Jennifer Daydreamer, Oliver
While I slept you stood in thecolorful night marketwith pyramids of brightfruit piled highWhere those who loved you,rushing back to their intimate stalls,held out pears that had beendreamed for youAnd would the dream pear notcome gladlyonce it knew this was youwanting to take it in?The dream pear chose reality,wanting your mouth as I did -Honestly, it was happy to be bitten.
— Brenda Hillman
I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning.
— Jean de Berg, The Image/The Whip Angels
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
— Megan Boyle
You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming
—  we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.
— Lucas Remmerswaal, The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
— Edmondo de Amicis, Coração
Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. We are in exile and our greatest dream is to return to the lost land. It is the greatest dream because no matter how long our exile is going to last, the dream will remain. It is the greatest dream because when we finally care only for this dream, then our exile will be over.
— Franco Santoro
I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.
— Lone Alaskan Gypsy
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anima Poetae from the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)
— Yusef Komunyakaa
Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.
— Santosh Kalwar
Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
You used to be the best to make life be real to me,and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be
— Warren Zevon, Reconsider Me: The Love Songs
I will explain You why I'm a dreamer, because in my dream everything is possible and I'm always positive nothing bad will happen in my dream only love is there with me.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen
Dream in colours, for hues are vibrant. Paint each day with a smile. In days of past, don't grieve; Make new deposit to the pleasant memory bank! Let your life be a reason for others to LIVE.
— Somya Kedia
Remember The DreamYou have a choiceYour heart will knowYou gotta look back sometimeTo know where to goYou have a voiceLong as you liveIt's never too smallWhatever you got to giveWhen your life is low (hold on)And you want to let go (be strong - hold on)Remember the dream we hadWhen there was nothing elseRemember the light that shinesAnd find it in yourselfRemember the dream is yoursSo let it guide your wayAnd keep it alive with you each dayDon't ever sayYou just don't carethe chances you takeWill take you as far as you darDon't be afraidHold your head highThere's strength in your soulYou never know till you tryWhen your life is low (hold on)And you want to let go (be strong -- hold on)You're not alone .. somebody cares(Hold on ...be strong)When you're walkin' the roadWith those who been there(You're not alone)Remember the dream is yoursSo let it guide your wayAnd keep it alive with you each day.
— James Ingram
You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.
— Kindle Korner
No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.
— Maeve Greyson
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.
— Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams,then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Dream is a way to communicate invented by the heavenly beings.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.
— Christopher Harman
My body flopped to the ground as Irealized my doom. I was in love. Finally. It’s what every girl dreams about from the moment she startsdreaming, to fall in love and be in love. Well I was in love, and I hated it.
— The Hippie, Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter
i have never been more than a dreamand the dreameris awake
— Nirmala, Gifts with No Giver: A Love Affair with Truth
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.""They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.
— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
When a dream is fulfilled, it is always a glorious feeling.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
If you can think it
—  you can do it!
Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true.
— Olivia Sinaga
Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.
— Anna Jae
Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility.
— Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
I felt like I was riding into infinity, and soon I forgot I existed as the sky surrounded us in a blanket of stars, constellations the texture of slushies, swirling blue and violet and gold. I was swallowed b the universe, riding on a white horse in a midnight dream...
— Aishabella Sheikh, Entwined
Never stop believing, have your own happy end.
— Anush Yepremyan
Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?
— Neil Gaiman
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. -- Author unknown
— Shelley K. Wall
may all your dream's come true but you still have to do and more doso till the day comedream
— مصطفي سليمان
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
— Janos Arnay
We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights - so be it! But one thing is real and certain, one thing is no dream-stuff, but eternal and enduring. It is the centre of my life, and all other things about it are subordinate or altogether vain. I loved her, that woman of a dream. And she and I are dead together!
— H.G. Wells, A Dream of Armageddon
My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was to follow. He believed that it was a consequence of the thing's presence in the next room. My father dreamed of blood.It was the vividness of the dreams that was impressive, their minute detail and horrible reality. The blood came through the keyhole of a locked door which communicated with the next room. I suppose the two rooms had originally been designed en suite. It ran down the door panel with a viscous ripple, like the artificial one created in the conduit of Trumpingdon Street. But it was heavy, and smelled. The slow welling of it sopped the carpet and reached the bed. It was warm and sticky. My father woke up with the impression that it was all over his hands. He was rubbing his first two fingers together, trying to rid them of the greasy adhesion where the fingers joined." ("The Troll")
— T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")
— Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.
— Emily Giffin
Dear billion dollar eyes they are a paupers dream
— Amit Abraham
Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tine aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.
— Alan Bradley
In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.
— Brandon Benevides
I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tiny aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.
— Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
It is a science fact that some animals do dream.It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
We are all One in this World.With one Dream in every People's mind.Money is only to Use for our daily sustenance.Born rich is only to be respected, not to make others down.Upgrowing with many knowledge around us is an opportunity.Born Smart is a gift.But to Grow up with respecting this all is an attitude that opens every door what will be closed for others, and respected by all humans.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Don’t throw away God’s plan for you just to chase a dream of your own making.
— Pamela S. Meyers, Surprised By Love in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.
— Fuyumi Ono, 魔性の子 [Mashō no Ko]
Wishing for someone to talk to, some warm human hand to cling to, she walked across the giant chessboard, searching blindly through the crowd of immobile figures... until she saw a dark form leaning indolently against a white marble column. Her heart began to hammer, and her steps slowed as she was filled with a rush of excitement that heated her skin and made her pulse beat in urgent rhythm.It was Simon Hunt, walking toward her with a slight smile on his face. He caught her before she could retreat, and bent to whisper in her ear."Will you dance with me now?""I can't," she said breathlessly, struggling in his tightening embrace."Yes, you can," he urged gently, his mouth hot and tender as it moved across her face. "Put your arms around me..."As she writhed in his embrace, he laughed softly and kissed her until she was limp and helpless against him. "Queen is now subject to capture," he murmured, drawing back to stare at her with deviltry in his eyes. "You're in danger, Annabelle...
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Dream itSee itFeel itBe it
— Evy Michaels
I fell into a restless sleep in which my dreams carried me away over misty valleys and moonlit woodlands toward a fairy glen, where I watched their beautiful midnight revels in silent awe as I whispered the words of my favorite poem. " 'You shall hear a sound like thunder, / And a veil shall be withdrawn, / When her eyes grow wide with wonder, / On that hill-top, in that dawn.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
Sometimes I wish I had not woken up from a beautiful dream, and continued dreaming within sleep upon sleep until I become a dream itself. Because sometimes waking up is more frightening than a nightmare.
— Danny Castillones Sillada
It was absolutely not a dream, it could be a glimpse of near future or an insight into the parallel universe we will in or it could simply be a world created by my unconscious brain where I actually fit in. But no matter what, we were together and that's enough.
— Ratish Edwards
I am kinda lost, don't know who I am, what am doing, and why I am in it. Everything around me is more like a weird dream. I wish I could wake up. Before the dream finishes me.
— Ratish Edwards
every dream I have about kissing you ends with blood on my hands.
— Trista Mateer, [Redacted]
Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?
— Joyce Rachelle
That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed of the beck fairies, a blur of lavender and rose-pink and buttercup-yellow light, flitting across the glittering stream, beckoning me to follow them toward the woodland cottage. There, the little girl with flame-red hair picked daisies in the garden, threading them together to make a garland for her hair. She picked a posy of wildflowers- harebell, bindweed, campion, and bladderwort- and gave them to me.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
Fuck.Major fuck fuck fuckity fuck.Fuck
— Giovanna Fletcher
I’m not sure if I managed to respond or not; maybe it was all just in my head, a dream, like all others, in which he sneaks into my head when I don’t have any power to hold him at arm’s length.But William was right about one thing.I did have sweet dreams, or maybe it was just a beautiful nightmare.
— Anna B. Doe, Lost & Found
Just a boy, Just a child,In a place where no one grows up;Young bodies with old minds,Dream and nightmare reign side by side,In a place where no one grows up;A time when darkness shrouded the sun,Vengeance birthed from sea and blood,Many had fallen in the war never won,In a place where no one grows up;When the boy’s heart grieved he became more of a man,When the pirate’s heart hardened with the loss of his hand,One dreadful night everything changed and feuds began,Now the ghosts from their mistakes are tied to this land,In a place where no one grows up;Just a boy, just a child, in appearance it’s true,But children can carry terrible burdens too,For sometimes stopping time doesn’t mean forever youth,Living, forgetting, loving, seething, bearing an all too heavy truth;Just a boy, Just a child,In a place where no one grows up.
— Emory R. Frie, Neverland
Every dream has a creator in it, And it completes the creator by itself.
— Anand Paramaguru
Logan's sleep was much as it always was.Dark. Cold. Empty.Seemingly endless.Then, out of nowhere, a face appeared to him in the darkness. A pale, pretty face with dark eyes.She called to him in a sweet, husky voice. "Logan."Well, Logan thought. If he was going to develop the talent for dreaming, these were the kinds of dreams he could enjoy.
— Tessa Dare, When a Scot Ties the Knot
If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect.
— Anthony T. Hincks
You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a dance dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.
— Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance
Focus on the dreams, there may be distractions but still, focus.
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Lately, she'd been waking up early every day, too excited to sleep. She was working on the biggest project she'd ever dared to undertake- transforming her family home into a destination cooking school. The work was nearing completion, and if everything went according to schedule, she would welcome the first guests of the Bella Vista Cooking School at harvest time.The big rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchard and kitchen gardens, was the perfect venue for the project. The place had long been just too much for just her and her grandfather, and Isabel's dreams had always been too big for her budget. She was passionate about cooking and in love with the idea of creating a place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts.
— Susan Wiggs, The Beekeeper's Ball
Life could be very distracting, thought Isabel. And that was a good thing. It kept her from focusing on things that couldn't be changed, such as the fact that she'd never finished culinary school, or that she'd allowed one failed relationship to keep her closed up tight inside a hard, protective shell. Now she had a new project that consumed her every waking moment- the cooking school. It was true that she didn't have the official certification from a prestigious institute, but she had something that couldn't be taught- a God-given talent in the kitchen.She clung to that gift, grateful to let the passion consume her and fill her days with a joyous pursuit. She believed living and feeling well came from eating well, appreciating the simple things in life and spending time in the company of family and friends, and that was the mission of the Bella Vista Cooking School.
— Susan Wiggs, The Beekeeper's Ball
There's always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more.
— Roshani Chokshi, Death and Night
When your dreams are clearer and stronger than your sleep, night becomes a mere extension of day
— Anoop Raghav
You're like a dream I never want to wake up from, but I; I'm insomniac!
— Ahmed Mostafa
But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to dream. Their figures originate from the same sources -- the unconscious wells of fantasy-- and their grammar is the same, but they are not the spontaneous products of sleep. On the contrary their patterns are consciously controlled. And their understood function is to serve as powerful picture language for the communication of traditional wisdom.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
You don't pay a cent to dream so why dream of becoming king's guard when you can dream of being a King
— Kenneth Mahuka
When the Dream Giver asked me to give my Dream to him, I didn't think I could. But I wanted the Dream Giver more than my Dream, so I did.
— Bruce Wilkinson
No matter what happens, you need to dream big. Unrealistically big! Even if it sounds totally crazy to you, I need you to still dream it and visualize it. If you come across challenges on the way to your dreams, do not go around them. Do not try to skip or leave them for later. Face them, fight through them, and win. Get to your goal, no matter what, and never lose hope or faith in your positive outcome. And when you achieve it, move on to the next one.
— Veronika Gasparyan, Mother at Seven
Work Hard Until You No Longer Have To Introduce Yourself.
— Bunny Naidu
I have clung	To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen	Or felt but a great dream!
— John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nightmares appear many times before your dream.
— J.R. Rim
Tomorrow could be just few steps away - a dream, yesterday the fucking nightmare...
— Deyth Banger
As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud called the navel of the dream, the place where all the lines of meaning the analyst has so carefully traced through the patient's life vanish into the unknown. But where the navel of the dream is essentially harmless phenomenon, a point where the dream's meaning is sufficiently understood, and further interpretation would be pointless, evil is a mystery with power. It reaches up into the world and makes everything mysterious.
— Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
Androids were never meant to dream.
— Tim Lebbon, Predator: Incursion
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place by E. B. White
— Bernd Heinrich, The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in bed and daydream rather than to live my dream.
— Hannah Hart, Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
When we feel we have benched ourselves for too long, we must loosen up the unessential, get over our endless cringing and make a bold leap to the glowing stars of our dream. ("Steaming ahead" )
— Erik Pevernagie
What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
The Doper's DreamLast night I dreamed I was plugged right inTo a bubblin' hookah so high,When all of a sudden some Arab jinniJump up just a-winkin' his eye.'I'm here to obey all your wishes,' he told me.As for words I was trying to grope.'Good buddy,' I cried, 'you could surely oblige meBy turning me on to some dope!'With a bigfat smile he took ahold of my hand,And we flew down the sky in a flash,And the first thing I saw in the land where he took meWas a whole solid mountain of hash!All the trees was a-bloomin' with pink 'n' purple pills,Whur the Romilar River flowed by,To the magic mushrooms as wild as a rainbow,So pretty that I wanted to cry.All the girls come to greet us, so sweet in slow motion,Mourning glories woven into their hair,Bringin' great big handfuls of snowy cocaine,All their dope they were eager to share.We we dallied for days, just a-ballin' and smokin',In the flowering Panama Red,Just piggin' on peyote and nutmeg tea,And those brownies so kind to your head.Now I could've passed that good time forever,And I really was fixing to stay,But you know that jinni turned out, t'be a narco man,And he busted me right whur I lay.And he took me back to a cold, cold world'N' now m'prison's whurever I be...And I dream of the days back in DoperlandAnd I wonder, will I ever go free?
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.
— Shannon A. Thompson, July Lightning
When your dream doesn't let you sleep even after 22 hours of waking up, its worth chasing.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
When your dream doesn't let you sleep even after 22 hours of waking up, it's worth chasing.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
What you still need to know is this: 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.’ “Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Never stop dreaming,” the old king had said."Follow the omens.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling him still. Even when she fell asleep, she dreamed of water, as if the world were topsy-turvy and everything she cared about had been lost in the deep. She plunged through the green waves with her eyes wide open, searching for the world as she'd known it, but that world no longer existed; everything that had once been solid was liquid now, and the birds swam alongside the fish.
— Alice Hoffman, The River King
In the old days prime ministers were not chosen by the vote of the people, because how can you choose by the vote of the people? How can people choose their leaders? They would like to, but they are not capable. Democracy is just a dream, it has not happened anywhere – it cannot happen. And wherever it happens it creates trouble; the medicine proves more dangerous than the disease itself.
— Osho, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
What good is a dream that doesn’t test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
i wish i could live in my dream.
— Joseph Mathew
Don't dream to lead the people while you can't care, even about your neighbours.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Your dream is real
— Sunday Adelaja
Sooner or later our dream will become a true, (Independence)
— Davan Yahya Khalil
Magic tumbled from her pretty lips and when she spoke the language of the universe– the stars sighed in unison.
— Michael Faudet
Wednesday. March 16 Isn't it strange that it hasn't occurred to me to put my relationship with Clarimonda on a more serious basis than these endless games. Last night, I thought about this...I can, of course, put on my hat and coat, walk down two flights of stairs, take five steps across the street and mount two flights to her door which is marked with a small sign that says "Clarimonda." Clarimonda what? I don't know. Something. Then I can knock and...Up to this point I imagine everything very clearly, but I cannot see what should happen next. I know that the door opens. But then I stand before it, looking into a dark void. Clarimonda doesn't come. Nothing comes. Nothing is there, only the black, impenetrable dark."The Spider
— Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales
If we do not start doing something towards the fulfillment of our dream or,it will never come to pass
— Sunday Adelaja
One of the most beautiful words is touch
—  it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!
But that night in her dream she flew high above the earth in a moonless sky. Behind her, like a falling star, sailed a silver sled.
— Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage
Impossible is only two letters away from being Possible.
— Natasha Tsakos
What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
Never give anything so easily. Life is not a gift, life is a struggle. Make him dream of it and it will make him more and more happy while getting it. If anybody has already become accustomed to the happiness, it is not happiness yet.
— Elmar Hussein
I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins...
— Virginia Alison
It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya?
— Deyth Banger
I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning.
— Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures
Life is to BIG that I'm suddenly overcome by the highs and lows of it.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
With each stride, I realize I'm not so emotionally overwhelmed anymore. A sense of purpose and fulfillment has replaced my feelings of helplessness.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
I don't dream my dreams, I live my dreams ... I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR.
— Farshad Asl
Every great achievement started with a dream and every failure bred by staring eyes.
— Dan O'Hanlon
Envy loves to tease a man constantly playing yo-yo, which is a cherished dream man.
— Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
More likely thoughts... and events than something else... after all yesterday it was a dream... already happen... tomorrow is the fucking dream as for "Now"... it is always now... If I am doing something else and I can control the direction... once finished as action... it cannot be changed.
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid
The Secret to Focusing on your Dream is to touch it every single day of your life.
— Oscar Bimpong
so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream
— Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake
Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.
— Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1
Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?
— Sophie Kinsella
She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.
— G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
My VoiceDreamt a dream of dreams,lucidOne word birthed another,othersStill deeper beyond time,infinite spaceOne bled into another,one dancedTwisted tight, for dear life, embraced windsDarkness, out of sight burned, wept my mindInto a new frontier, frameless portraitsIn defiance, out of the ash, rose my voiceKaleb Kilton (c) 2016
— Kaleb Kilton
It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain
— George Orwell, 1984
There were dozens of theories about what it was, that dome. Every scientist in the world, it seemed, had made a pilgrimage to the site. Tests had been conducted, measurements taken.They had tried drilling through it. Under it. Had flown over it. Had dug beneath it. Had approached it by submarine.Nothing worked.Every species of doomsayer from Luddite to End Times nut had had his say. It was a judgment. On America’s technological obsession, on America’s moral failure. This. That. Something else.Then the twins had popped out. Just like that. First Emma. Then, a few minutes later, Anna. Alive and well at the exact moment of their fifteenth birthday.They told tales of life inside the bowl. What they called the FAYZ.Connie Temple’s heart had swelled with pride for what she had learned of her son, Sam. And crashed into despair with tales of her other son, her unacknowledged child, Caine.Then, nothing. No other kids arrived for a while.Black despair settled over the families as they realized that it would be only these two. Months passed. Many lost faith. How could kids survive alone?But then, the Prophetess had reached into their dreams.One night Connie Temple had a lurid, incredible dream. She’d never had such a detailed dream. It was terrifying. The power of it took her breath away. There was a girl in that 
— Michael  Grant, Lies
This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
To dream is to have a chest filled with stars, a mind captivated by possibilities and a heart enveloped in imagination.
— Anastasia Bolinder
She was someone's dream, who just chose to show up in someone else's sleep.
— Akshay Vasu
This life you cry up so much is what I wanted to extinguish by suicide, whereas my dream, my dream—oh, it has revealed to me a great, new, regenerated intensity of life!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
Let us keep on dreaming and instead of saying “I wish” and waiting for it to happen, have the courage to say “I will” and make it come true.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.(…)It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.
— Anastasia Bolinder
Some dreams shouldn't be remembered.
— Chloé Danielo
Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare.
— Farshad Asl
Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
A fancy car and hot girl is the dream of every loser male, while a rich handsome man is the dream of every bitch.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
A dream you don’t have to fight for isn’t a dream—it’s a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting.
— Jon Acuff
You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.
— Clara Hughes
Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.
— China Miéville, This Census-Taker
Animal spirits often will appear during the hours between dusk and dawn; also known as the “tween times”. They will always give you something. It may be just a simple pause within the chaos of life to remind you that there is more to life than the details of living it, working it and paying for it. It may be a shred of insight or a flash of recognition that comes to you in a fleeting thought or maybe in a dream in the tween times of your own mind.
— Kate McGahan, The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Unexpected Angel
The dream is fulfilled in due time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one.” Ashwin
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )
— Erik Pevernagie
You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger:All beginning comes to an end.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.
— Santosh Avvannavar, God's Table: The Last Supper
Dream, live it and make it happen! As impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude are what will keep us going.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
As long as I dream, that is enough for me to keep moving forward.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
35	“Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn’t mean they don’t have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing.”But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn’t mean they don’t have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing.”But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers.
— Lawrence Blair, Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
It’s okay to DREAM and dream BIG.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
Lost child ,Open dreams .
— Ankit Samrat
Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream.
— Mouloud Benzadi
Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.
— Nikki Rowe
I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!
— Deyth Banger
Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing
— Jorge Luis Borges
Love not your dream but the road leading to it and you might still fail, but you shall definitely end up enjoying every moment of your life.
— Sorrab Singha
We are broken. Our ways are apart.Still we laugh together and taunt.We fight and get hurt...Still we don't stop!We spread love among us,With the scent of believe.We write on live.Our dreams are shattered.We think to move on,But scared to miss each other.We smirk when someone scolds,But we drink a jar of poison each time.We die and born everyday.We rely on each other.We get furious.We tease and never step back.We listen but never act on.For public we are mature,But among us we are childish.We act like ninjas among us.And we love to stay like this...Among us forever!Because we are siblings.
— Irfa Adam
Nothing can escape death. Not even the Sun. Not even the Earth. Not even the universeEveryone will have to embrace their eternal sleep someday. It can happen anytime. Anywhere. And at any location.It is Sudden.Many people die filled with regret.Regret that they didn't get their dream job.Regret that they didn't listen to their parents.Regret that they didn't confide to their crush.Regret that they didn't get into a better high school.But most of all, they regret that they haven't live life to it's fullest.That they didn't try out everything in the world. That they didn't get to see much of it.Few people die with happiness.It is because they have seen everything.It is because they have travelled to nearly every place on Earth.It is because they have done good in the world.It is because they know that they have enjoyed life and have made Earth a more enjoyable place for future generations.Those people that die with no regrets have chosen a better path. They pursued their dreams.They followed it.They completed it.And they accomplished it.Those people are worth following. Those people are worth remembering.So let's remember them.And never forget the good things that they have left in this world.
— Hina Yu
As a human I'm complex, as a human I don't have limits, but the book have it's own limits. All the time something good happens?? But why people don't continue to live in horror??It satisfies me, to see how people suck blood it's a symptom that you are watching a vampire... But it's to far isn't it??Sometimes to dream, how you dream and how you wake up in the dream and you wake up from that dream... wow that's awesome!?
— Deyth Banger
She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her eyes. All at once the image came to her of the sky she had seen while swimming on her back. And Erroll Garner's 'I'll Remember April.' Let me sleep, she thought. Just let me sleep. And wait for the dream to come.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Live your Dream
— Shine Syamaladevi, The Ribbon Trap
I always believe that the bridge between reality and a dream is work.
— Jared Leto
You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.
— Nikki Rowe
But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
— Neil Gaiman, The Wake
Never quit on your dream, but learn to cut your losses and quit your plan if it is not working.
— Ken Poirot