Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

“I lived in those dreams—I was always a heavy dreamer—more than in real life; those shadows consumed my strength and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

— Deepak Chopra

I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows,…

— Chantal Sutherland

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine

Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and…

— Florence Nightingale

“In Auschwitz I would often dream about my home. It's interesting that in that hell many of my dreams were quite pleasant. I would…

— Louis Brandsdorfer

“Perhaps she wrote that life is really lived through dreams and intuitions, not fate and circumstance.”

— Kiana Davenport

My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to…

— Blake Lively

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried…

— Roger Bannister

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence…

— John Sergeant Wise

“I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would”

— Richard Brautigan

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Many other inhabitants of the city were similarly afflicted. Every day, more and more people took to saving time, and the more they did…

— Michael Ende, Momo

I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always…

— Jean Marsh

“It was laid out much like any other town—thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This…

— Daniel Wallace