Selected dreams quotes

1. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

2. Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, - Outward bound.

3. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

4. Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

5. Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

6. I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

7. The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

8. People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

9. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

10. It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

11. I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

12. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

13. In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

14. I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

15. Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

16. The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

17. Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

18. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

19. 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.

20. There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

21. True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

22. If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

23. A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

24. Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

25. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

26. I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

27. Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

28. When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

29. A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.

30. Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

31. You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

32. Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.

33. She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

34. He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.

35. Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

36. Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

37. All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

38. The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

39. Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy.

40. I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

41. Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

42. To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

43. It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

44. Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

45. O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

46. A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

47. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

48. America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

49. There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

50. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

51. My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

52. California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations - the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories - followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

53. The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, The eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, And lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

54. Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

55. And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams.

56. 'Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,' The shade replied, - 'If you seek for Eldorado!'

57. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

58. Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

59. The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

60. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

61. Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

62. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

63. I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: 'Dreamer, dream no more!'

64. The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

65. To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere but once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

66. I dreamed of becoming a writer. And . . . this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book . . .

67. You see, she was gonna be an actress And I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, And I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, Inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, Taking tips, and getting stoned, I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

68. She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered 'It's not all it seems' That's when she laughed and she said, 'It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.'

69. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

70. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

71. Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

72. Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

73. The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

74. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

75. Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

76. When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

77. I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream- and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

78. Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, - that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

79. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.

80. Asks the Possible of the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling-place?' 'In the dreams of the Impotent,' comes the answer.

81. Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

82. There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

83. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

84. I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

85. That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

86. You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' - 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? - Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.'

87. And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream.

88. During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

89. I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

90. When I was fifteen and had quit school forever, I went to work in a vineyard near Sanger with a number of Mexicans, one of whom was only a year or two older than myself, an earnest boy named Felipe. One gray, dismal, cold, dreary day in January, while we were pruning muscat vines, I said to this boy, simply in order to be talking, 'If you had your wish, Felipe, what would you want to be? A doctor, a farmer, a singer, a painter, a matador, or what?' Felipe thought a minute, and then he said, 'Passenger.' This was exciting to hear, and definitely something to talk about at some length, which we did. He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.

91. Love is a beautiful dream.

92. The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.

93. Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

94. Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

95. 'Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.'

96. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

97. Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, - Outward bound.

98. In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.

99. Nobody dast blame this man. Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

100. What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . . Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . . And after a while they will fall to dust and rain; Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.