Dream Quotes - Page 27

• No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Letting Go, Kids, Childhood

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.193, Vintage

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• one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

  Kate Chopin

  Reality, Soul, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.81

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• Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sleep, Boys, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Games, I've Learned

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.235, Bantam

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Long, Leaving

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Impossible, States

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• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Heart, Sleep

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms.

  Paul Murray

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.

  Ned Vizzini

  Wake Up, Realization, Want

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• Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Looks, Sake, Way

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• Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

  Henry James

  Believe, Night, Men

  Henry James (2015). “Roderick Hudson”, p.45, Booklassic

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• I'll talk to Mortimer and see what he thinks, and then get back to you tomorrow. In the meantime, you should really get to sleep and get those shared dreams going." Cale grimaced at the suggestion, and reminded him, "She has a splitting headache, Bricker." "I thought that was a married woman's complaint?" Bricker responded quickly, and then laughed at his own joke as he hung up.

  Lynsay Sands

  Sleep, Thinking, Suggestions

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• I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Hands, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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• I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Art, Discovery

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

  Susan Sontag

  Self, Literature, Territory

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Suicide, Doors, People

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Green Lights, Docks, Failing

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers. When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever.

  Helen Hollick

  Life Changing, Eye, Fire

  Helen Hollick (2004). “A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England”, William Heinemann

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Real, Wish, Gardening

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• I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

  Cameron Dokey

  Thinking, Might, Nightmare

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.

  William S. Burroughs

  Wall, Sleep, Boys

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]

  Dolly Parton

  Strong, Morning, Moving

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• If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sleep, Awake, Communes

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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• that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

  Jean Rhys

  Tired, Eye, Expression

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