Dream Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied to gross…

— Ken Wilber

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic,…

— Emile M. Cioran

dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which…

— Maude Meagher

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly…

— David Lilienthal

“WHATEVER THE SOUL IS TAUGHT to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere vaporings of…

— Orison Swett Marden

“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen…

— Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

— Shane Claiborne

“Whenever utopians present the substance of their wishes and fight to make them actual, a fair number of their dreams will often come true,…

— Mark Greif

And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the…

— Michel Foucault

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the…

— Anatole France

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned…

— Theodore Roethke

“The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of…

— Jonathan Franzen