Dreams Quote by Richard Wright

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is…

— Victor Hugo

“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he sits himself…

— Henry Miller

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of our intentions.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“He has the capacity to veer with every wind, or, stubbornly, to insert himself into some fantastically elaborated and irrational social institution only to…

— Loren Eiseley

“A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens…

— Greg Iles

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of…

— George Eliot

“There is a sort of mental treason That smothers dreams outside of reason”

— Mike Corbett

“This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid…

— Jojo Moyes

“A visionary looks at the immensity of the world without fear. He looks at the billions of dreams in the millions of people's minds,…

— Xavier Saer

“Such a man is like a dreamer who wakes from a dream of grief to a greater sorrow yet. All that he loves is…

— Cormac McCarthy

“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”

— W.H. Auden