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Dreams Quotes by Stephen King

68 Dreams quotes by Stephen King

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Pennywise promises to be every nightmare, showing how dreams can turn into terrifying visions. The quotes also suggest that living where you wake up grounds you, while interpretations of dreams range from Freud’s theories to simple ideas. They portray dreams as fertile soil where big ideas can grow.

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“Love is a dream.”

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Dreams age faster than dreamers.

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“Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.”

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“...I turned in and slept like the dead. There were no dreams.”

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The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

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“I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.”

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“if you tell your dreams, they won’t come true.”

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine…

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“RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect…

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“I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go…

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The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

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Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

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“When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.”

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“I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found…

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My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that,…

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“And George saw the clown’s face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing…

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“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety…

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“I’ll do whatever you want,” Trash said gratefully in the dream. “My life for you! My soul for you!” “I will set…

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“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a…

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The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come…

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“Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly…

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“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw…

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“The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing…

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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave…

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“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed…

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“Patrick Hockstetter, a boy who had disappeared in July of 1958, and there were worms crawling in and out of Patrick Hockstetter’s…

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“The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It…

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“I don't want to hear the scary part. But at the same time she does want to hear the scary part, everyone…

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“You think Mother sent us out here to have visions?' Ralph asked. 'Maybe to gain strength and holiness by a purging process',Glen…

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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no…

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Its not the pain Im afraid of; I know about the pain. What Im afraid of is the end of this small,…

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The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

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“Her expression was dreamy and distant. Eddie thought: I bet that’s how she looks when she’s sleeping.”

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“Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.”

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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

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“Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always…

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“there isn’t nobody that can live a natural life without having a few bad dreams.”

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I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”