Dreams Quote by Ben Okri

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of…

— Adam P. Knave

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“...probably by that time he had learned that there were three things and no more: breathing, pleasure, darkness; and without money there could be…

— William Faulkner

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place…

— Hermann Hesse

“And there was nothing in my eyes. Or even worse -- nothingness. Not the presence of a thing but the presence of a non-thing.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a…

— Maurice Blanchot

“And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard.…

— Margaret Atwood

“No man can ever feel his own identity aright excepr his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our…

— Herman Melville