“ You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ”
“ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”
“ It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ”
“ You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. ”
“ Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ”
“ Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly. ”
“ Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ”
“ We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling
with
you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you. ”
“ People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. ”
“ I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ”
“ I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. ”
“ Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. ”
“ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ”
“ He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ”
“ Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ”
“ Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ”
“ No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. ”
“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”
“ If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ”
“ I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. ”
“ Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams. ”
“ A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
(As quoted on
BookRiot
, June 18, 2013) ”
“ I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it. ”
“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”
“ Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared. ”
“ The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. ”
“ It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ”
“ Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. ”
“ A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ”
“ Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ”
“ You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. ”
“ I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. ”
“ Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. ”
“ We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ”
“ I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. ”
“ We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems. ”
“ Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ”
“
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? ”
Edgar Allan Poe , The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
