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Quotes including the word “dream”.

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Akhmatova

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Baudelaire

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Mario Benedetti

Five minutes is enough to dream a whole life, time is so relevant.

Elizabeth Bishop

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

W. Burroughs

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Calderon

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Ray Charles

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Chateaubriand

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Chopin

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

We live as we dream--alone...

Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Dostoevsky

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Eminescu

The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.

Faulkner

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Sigmund Freud

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Khalil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Khalil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

van Gogh,Vincent

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

van Gogh,Vincent

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Emma Goldman

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Gracian

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Hawthorne

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

Ionesco

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Kalidasa

..today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope

Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

L. Martin King,

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

L. Martin King,

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Gwendoline Konie

For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.

Srecko Kosovel

These awesome times, these restless times, are playing nervously with what we are looking for, in every direction, crushing and killing dreams.

Kropotkin

Well-being for all is not a dream.

Eino Leino

He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.

Vinci da Leonardo

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Lucian

Dreams are great magicians.

Antonio Machado

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

Gabriel Marquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

A. Modigliani

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Alfred Musset

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream.

Sarojini Naidu

Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”

Noonuccal

We are the wonder tales of Dream Time,

Valery Paul

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Octavio Paz

Deserve your dream.

Pindar

Creatures of a day! What is a man? What is he not? A dream of a shadow Is our mortal being.

Elder the Pliny

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

A. Edgar Poe,

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

A. Edgar Poe,

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

A. Edgar Poe,

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Alexander Pope,

They dream in courtship, they wake in wedlock.

Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Pushkin

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Gabrielle Roy

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Schiller

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.

Goh-Poh Seng

there are days ahead, Days to be fulfilled With just a soft, soft wind Filling the space of dreams.

Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Mary Shelley

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Kim Sowol

I dreamed that shoulder to shoulder with my companions I was returning to the village after a full day of work, in the evening light, happy, in such a dream.

John Steinbeck

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

Strindberg

I dream, therefore I exist.

Tagore

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Theocritus

Youth passes like a dream.

Henry Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

John Updike

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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.”

L. Wittgenstein

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming

B. W. Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

B. W. Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

B. W. Yeats

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Emile Zola

Everything is only a dream.