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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope De Vega
In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce
Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
Herb Brooks
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
David Herbert Lawrence
All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous Huxley
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Akira Kurosawa
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel De Montaigne
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde