Dreaming Quotes
1037 Dreaming quotes by 737 unique authors
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within…
— Sherman Alexie
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Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being…
— Bruce Lee
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His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
— Clive Barker
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at…
— Allen Ginsberg
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
— Albert Camus
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Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
— Philip Pullman
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The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
— Haruki Murakami
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In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.
— Richard Matheson
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and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming...
— Tom Waits
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find…
— Anna Quindlen
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In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I…
— Alberto Manguel
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We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books…
— Alberto Manguel
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It…
— Ellen Schreiber
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my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my…
— E E Cummings
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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said…
— Douglas Adams
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
— Sigmund Freud
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that…
— Tom Stoppard
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Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes…
— Francesca Lia Block
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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