quotations about dreams & dreaming
Dreams only change their houses.
They cannot be lined up against a wall
And quietly buried under ground,
And no more heard of ...
However deep the pit and heaped the clay--
Like seedlings of old time
Hooding a sacred rose under the ice cap of the world--
Dreams will to light.
LOLA RIDGE
"Dreams"
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul
In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
TANITH LEE
The Book of the Dead
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
To One in Paradise
When we can't dream any longer we die.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Mother Earth Bulletin
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Miracle of Right Thought
It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's for you electron blue
R.E.M.
"Sing for the Submarine"
There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
One day I discovered to my amazement that the popular view grounded in superstition, and not the medical one, comes nearer to the truth about dreams. I arrived at new conclusions about dreams by the use of a new method of psychological investigation, one which had rendered me good service in the investigation of phobias, obsessions, illusions, and the like, and which, under the name "psycho-analysis," had found acceptance by a whole school of investigators.I
SIGMUND FREUD
"Dreams Have a Meaning", Dream Psychology
There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
ANNE ENRIGHT
The Gathering
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
DAN SIMMONS
The Fall of Hyperion
Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.
SETH GABEL
"Our Own Private America", Salem