All men dream — but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TVs all over the world. —Steven Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply, "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. —Luis Bunuel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. —René Magritte More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A major problem in the development of Elias Howe's sewing machine was the location of the eye of the needle. The inventor was rapidly running out of money and ideas when one night he had a peculiar dream. He was being led to his execution for failing to design a sewing machine for the king of a strange country. He was surrounded by guards, all of whom carried spears that were pierced near the head. Realizing instantly that this was the solution to his problem, Howe woke up and rushed straight to his workshop. By nine o'clock that morning, the design of the first sewing machine was well on the way to completion. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: completion design Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the dreams of not making sense. —Erich Fromm More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you compare dreams of olden times with those of our time, you will note that the basic problems have remained the same. —Emil A. Gutheil More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And suddenly, I understood; everything became extraordinarily clear and simple. Everything: life, death, the meaning of existence. And even stronger than this revelation was my surprise: how had no one on earth yet understood this thing, so extraordinarily simple? . . . I had the feeling that a message had been transmitted to me, that I should remember [it] so as to be able to communicate it to men. I woke up . . . with this idea in mind: not to forget what I had seen. A second later, I had forgotten. —Mircea Eliade More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. —Marc Ian Barasch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. —Emily Bronte More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I cried at first . . . and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy. —Frances Noyes Hart More about this quote Tags: happiness tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email