Quotations about

Dreams

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.

—Yiddish proverb

Some friendships fade. People grow apart, lose touch, want different things. Dreams woven together, unravel.

—Kimberly Marcus in Exposed

I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them.

—Mia Sheridan in Kyland

Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

—Aeschylus

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

—Anatole France

Hope is a waking dream.

—Aristotle

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

—Brett Butler

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

—Cynthia Ozick

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

—Douglas Adams

The wisest men follow their own direction.

—Euripides

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

—Friedrich von Schiller

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?

—George Bernard Shaw

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

—Germaine Greer

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

—Henry Bromel