Dreams Quotes

"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence"

Judy Collins, Musician

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

James A. Michener, Novelist

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open"

John Berger, Artist

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"We will build a country of opportunities, where everyone can realize their dreams"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft"

Will Smith, Actor

"I want to build a country where people have equal opportunities and where everyone can achieve their dreams, regardless of their background"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"The most important thing in life is to follow your passion and pursue your dreams"

Liv Arnesen, Explorer

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream"

Debby Boone, Actress

"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams"

William H. Macy, Actor

"Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had"

Sara Teasdale, Author

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it"

Carl Perkins, Musician

"Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are"

Tyra Banks, Model

"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value"

Henry Reed, Writer

"Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives"

Henry Reed, Writer

"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed"

Henry Reed, Writer

"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

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