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In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn’t the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming something else.
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.
— Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm
— Francesca Lia Block, Primavera
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
— Dara Torres, Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
— Anthony Robbins, Get the Edge
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf, The Years
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
— Diogenes Laërtius
Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.
— Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.
— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
...she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.
— Stephen Cosgrove, The Dream Tree
The world is a giant eye, staring back at the stars. When it tires, it closes its lids--just as I am doing now--and gives way to dreams, which is why the night is so much more mysterious than the day.
— Sean Stewart, Clouds End
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
— Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
— H.P. Lovecraft
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
— John F. Kennedy
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
— Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong
You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette
— Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.
— P.D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe
In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!
— Jaeda DeWalt
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
— Martin Luther King Jr.
They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
All dreams continue in the beyond.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.
— Robert Fanney
Her passions were narrow but deep.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell
— E.E. Cummings, Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems
This was the way he had to go
—  he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky.
— S.H. Kolee, Love Left Behind
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.
— Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World
I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.
— Susan  Fletcher, Corrag
To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
— P.B. Kerr, The Five Fakirs of Faizabad
There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
— Douglas Everett
Wow," Puck mused, standing beside me. "The River of Dreams." ... Moons, comets and constellations rippled on the surface, and other, stranger things floated upon the misty black waters. Petals and book pages, butterfly wings and silver medals. The hilt of a sword stuck out of the water at an odd angle, the silver blade tangled with ribbons and spiderwebs. A coffin bobbed to the surface, covered in dead lilies, before sinking into the depths once more. The debris of human imaginations, floating through the dark waters of dream and nightmare.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight
Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.
— Francesca Lia Block, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.
— Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect
Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy."	My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me."	"Well, I have to stop."	His smirk grew cocky. "I doubt you can resist."	And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin―to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
— Roy Orbison
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down.- Sleeping to Dream
— Jason Mraz
Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.
— Mike Yaconelli
Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again!For so the night will more than payThe hopeless longings of the day.
— Matthew Arnold, Longing
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams, purge your thoughts of the life you knew before. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and live, as you never lived before!
— Charles  Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
— Ian McEwan, Saturday
Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.
— Nora Roberts, Public Secrets
I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him--the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire. Then I awoke. Then I recalled where I was, and how situated. Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams
Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT. 
— Paula H. Deen
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Never lose your passion 2 dream.
— Pablo
I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]
— Linda Pastan, The Imperfect Paradise
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
— Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind
— Rolling Stones
Never quit on your one and only dream !!!
— Raven Kaldera
Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
— Camille Claudel
All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.
— Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.
— Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.
— Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
‎"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.
— Daisaku Ikeda
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
— Ewan McGregor
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
— Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
There comes a moment in life when you say to yourself – enough. This is ENOUGH! Then – you take a walk with your destiny. To change. To fulfill your purpose. We all have it. But are you willing to take that first step?
— Besa Kosova
Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.
— Marty Rubin
You may need to change your dreams.
— Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation
Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.
— Steve Goodier
When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever you found the day.
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.
— Sakurai Sho
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Whatever happened to our dreams? The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of someday easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
— Randall Munroe
The world cannot be translated
—  It can only be dreamed of and touched.
Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
— Maureen Johnson
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades.Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering.But the ones that are . . . happen again.So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to become. All of it points towards our destiny. All we need to do is listen carefully to the messages and follow our dreams. It is in our dreams that we find our true identities and where our destiny awaits.
— Isaiah Washington, A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
— Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. I thought a lot and developed the faraway look of a dreamer, for it was always the distant heights that fascinated me and drew me to them in spirit. I was not sure what could be accomplished with tenacity and little else, but the target was set high and each rebuff only saw me more determined to see at least one major dream to its fulfillment.
— Earl Denman, Alone to Everest
We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
— Tanith Lee, The Book of the Dead
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
— Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self.
— Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
We all dream of finding that one person whom will love us even after there are no more tomorrows.
— Faye Hall
... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,” he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands.Emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. “I'll never see you again, will I?”He shook his head. “Not in this lifetime,” he said hoarsely.She pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. He felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. “Then I'll wait a hundred years,” she whispered. “Or a thousand, if I must. Remember that, Nikki. I'll be waiting for you to come to me.
— Lisa Kleypas, Prince of Dreams
You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.
— Eve Evangelista, Create and Move Forward in Life
You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past
If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today
— Joyce Chapman
Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes
We all suffer from dreams.
— Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Moon In the WindowI wish I could say I was the kind of childwho watched the moon from her window,would turn toward it and wonder.I never wondered. I read. Dark signsthat crawled toward the edge of the page.It took me years to grow a heartfrom paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon,a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.
— Dorianne Laux
Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.
— Floriano Martins
But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.
— Dick Francis, Whip Hand
Now here you go againYou say you want your freedomWell who am I to keep you downIt's only right that you shouldPlay the way you feel itBut listen carefully to the soundOf your lonelinessLike a heartbeat ... drives you madIn the stillness of remembering what you hadAnd what you lo
— Stevie Nicks, Rumours
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
— Man Ray
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
— Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.
— Álvaro Mutis, Die Abenteuer und Irrfahrten des Gaviero Maqroll : die sieben Maqroll-Romane
AwakeShake dreams from your hairMy pretty child, my sweet one.Choose the day andchoose the sign of your dayThe day’s divinityFirst thing you see.A vast radiant beachin a cool jeweled moonCouples naked race down by it’s quiet sideAnd we laugh like soft, mad childrenSmug in the woolly cotton brains of infancyThe music and voices are all around us.Choose, they croon, the Ancient OnesThe time has come againChoose now, they croon,Beneath the moonBeside an ancient lakeEnter again the sweet forestEnter the hot dreamCome with usEverything is broken up and dances.
— The Doors
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth
— Dan Rather
The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams
Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
— Elizabeth Bishop
I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
— Machado de Assis
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
— Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
There are very few things that live in both this world and the world of dreams. Most are gods, angels and demons. The Stone you hold was made by Vlad Valkire the son of an angel and a demon. By the divine blood that ran in his veins, Valkire could see the light and hear the song of creation -- if only as glimmerings and whispers. "Over time, he became aware of the light and the music and as he grew so did his understanding of it. At the age of twenty two, he began his greatest labor -- the making of the Wyrd Stones. In them he captured the light and song of creation and by them some of the powers of gods, angels and demons fell into the hands of elves and men. A sorcerer who knows its secret may -- like a god, angel, or demon -- stand with one foot in this world and another within the world of dreams.  "Your Stone is a gateway into the world of dreams, Luthiel. When you sing, it opens and you are, in part, taken there. Others who hold a Wyrd Stone like yours may know when someone crosses into dream. When you sang, I could hear you quite clearly.
— Robert Fanney
A dream without a fight is a nightmare.
— Besa Kosova
Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…
— Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard
Dreams are manifestation of the reality.
— Santosh Kalwar
If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?
— Meg Howrey, The Cranes Dance
To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, aworld of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed downbelow, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejection your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive.
— Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo
Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 2
...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily.
— Josephine Angelini, Dreamless
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
— Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted their feathers to bud from our flesh. We wanted their wings, we wanted to fly as they did, soar freely among the treetops and the clouds, and so we ate them. We speared them, we clubbed them, we tangled their feet in glue, we netted them, we spitted them, we threw them onto hot coals, and all for love, because we loved them. We wanted to be one with them. We wanted to hatch out of clean, smooth, beautiful eggs, as they did, back when we were young and agile and innocent of cause and effect, we did not want the mess of being born, and so we crammed the birds into our gullets, feathers and all, but it was no use, we couldn’t sing, not effortlessly as they do, we can’t fly, not without smoke and metal, and as for the eggs we don’t stand a chance. We’re mired in gravity, we’re earthbound. We’re ankle-deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.
— Margaret Atwood
In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.
— Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . .
— George Mallory, Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory
He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.
— Anne Osterlund, Academy 7
Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in my world that decorated the walls and floors of dragons' lairs, the sword hilts of privileged princes, and crowns worn by emperors and kings, were nothing compared to the beauty and splendor of the diamond in Wrigley Stadium. It wasn't just a yard with dirt, chalk lines, bases, and a small hill in its center. Wrigley was a field of dreams. Dreams of eternal glory for the men who ran to the outfield, who took their respective bases, and prepared for battle against those who would dare enter their hallowed realm. Dreams for the kids in the stands, all wanting to don a uniform, kiss their moms goodbye, and wield their bats as enchanted weapons destined to knock the cover off the ball. And for the adults who had already selected their lot in life, Wrigley made the dreams of past innocence, lost wonder, and the promise that there was something inherently good still left in the world, come true.Yeah, corny as hell. But all true.
— Tee Morris, The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery
Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!
— Eça de Queirós, The Mandarin and Other Stories
‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
— Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce
Sweet dreams, baby,” he whispered into myhair, his arm giving me a squeeze. “See you onthe other side.”“You too, Captain,” I whispered...'Lauren and Tate, in Sweet Dreams
— Kristen Ashley
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
— Brett Butler
the dream had come again, like the sun after a storm. It was the same dream that had come many times before, battering down the doors of my mind night after night since i was a child. it was the sort of dreams all girls dream, i suppose- a dream of mysterious worlds and hidden doorways, of leaves that breathe and make music when they are rustled in the wind, and river that bubbles and froth with secrets.
— Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost
No man runs the race until he sees the dream.
— Fred C. White
Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.
— Sana Rose, The Torrent from My Soul: Poems of a Born Dreamer
Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality
— Munia Khan
To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.
— Vincent Lowry
It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.
— Jed McKenna
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
— Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle
Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?
— Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.
— Victor Hugo
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.
— Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear
If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
— Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
— Mike  Norton
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
— Joyce Chapman
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.
— M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine
There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.
— Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together—with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money.
— Barbara Newhall Follett
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
— Jane Roberts
Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.
— Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.
— Mark  Rice, Metallic Dreams
For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
— Homer
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
— Ewan McGregor
He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to look at her. It gave him a grim, horrible, and rather uncanny sensation to think that a vivid, lacerating life could go on when one sunk in unconsciousness, a life so real that it could cause tears to stream down the face and twist the mouth in woe, and yet when the sleeper woke left no recollection behind.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday
If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Life is a dream. We wake up when we die
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.
— Eugène Ionesco, Notes and Counternotes
Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Not at all. Cooking is cool. I’ll make you one shaped like the moon.”“Why the moon?”“Because you remind me of the moon,” he said, and looked into his bowl. Sarah blushed.
— Daniela Sacerdoti, Dreams
The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day.
— Tasha Hoggatt
I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintings were splashes of rebellious color, like the two in my living room, dark patches with little droplets of blue. I asked about her progress from modern realism to abstraction. Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
— Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
I really like it when a bad dream doesn't scare you...it inspires you instead'.
— Fwah Storm
Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.
— Vincent Lowry
We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.
— Pete Hautman, The Big Crunch
A person should try to understand dreams. A person should take warning from them.
— Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love
Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
— Lord Dunsany, A Dreamer's Tales
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?
— Amy Fellner Dominy, OyMG
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.
— Anna Godbersen, Rumors
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.
— Michelle Jellen, Spain or Shine
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.
— L.M. Montgomery
We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".
— Scott Fotheringham, The Rest Is Silence