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“Even as she lay dreaming these dreams, however, a sane part of her mind was still on duty. Realistically, she knew that what she was thinking was nonsense.”
Gordon R. Dickson (1923–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright. Stars of all hearts, lead onward thro' the night Past death-black deserts, doubts without a name, Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin To that far sky where mystic births begin, Where dreaming ears the angel-song shall win.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep dreaming, the best ideas comes in your dreams and the ability to create a world of fantasy. Stalk your mentors and their works.”
Kemi Adetiba (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Objectivity is mankind's glorious goal, summoning narcissism, Eros masked, from the dreams of childhood to the service of research, progress, art, and culture. When it stays behind in childish dreaming, and when its leap falls short, it slips without a blow into the bottomless deeps of disease.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I, who don't believe in war, don't want to be buried under any flag. If anything I would like to be remembered for my dreams. Should I die one day - in a hundred years - I would like to have what Nelson Mandela said on my gravestone: "A winner is a dreamer who has never stopped dreaming". Vittorio Arrigoni: a winner.”
Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think people have to kind of hear the fact that I started writing when I was nine years old. I want people to know my story and all the things that I do. I realize that sometimes, it is important to tell your own story, in your own words. So, that you can also have young people realize that you don’t give up. You just have to keep dreaming and realizing those dreams.”
Peace Anyiam-Osigwe (1969–2023) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peace spoke about her perspective to lifeSunnews (30th September 2018)
“Know yourself - understand and believe in your dreams. Give yourself room to research and plan for whatever you are dreaming of venturing into”
Lilly Alfonso wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there’s more to life than dreaming. He was going to live in the real world from now on, and he was going to learn to appreciate its rough, mundane solidity.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if the dreams are impossible or appear to be so, keep on dreaming.”
Billye Aaron (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was so beautiful to witness someone in their eighties making their dreams come true. Not only did she get a show, she got a fucking second season! It reminds you to never stop dreaming. You have to give it to her – Jilly really lived her life”
Nafessa Williams (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If (Mainland) China's dream is a dream of democracy, Taiwan will provide all needed assistance in the process of realizing that dream.”
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A scourge is not on a human scale, and so people say it isn't real; it's a bad dream that will pass. But is doesn't always pass, and, from bad dream to bad dream, it's the humans who pass, and the humanists first, because they didn't heed the warnings.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The work of charity, of the love of God, is to endeavor to to liberate God from brute matter, to endeavor to give consciousness to everything, to spiritualize or universalize everything; it is to dream that the very rocks may find a voice and work in accordance with the spirit of this dream; it is to dream that everything that exists may become conscious, that the Word may become life.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May we not imagine that possibly this earthly life of ours is to the other life what sleeping is to waking? May not all our life be a dream and death an awakening? But an awakening to what? And supposing that everything is but the dream of God and that God one day will awaken? Will He remember His dream?”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
“It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.”
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What did I dream? Oh, what did I dream? No one can keep me from my... No one could keep me from my... No fucker gonna keep me from my... Oh, what did I dream?”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first time, we did not know what change would look like. Now we do. The first time, we did not know Barack Obama. Now we do. Which dream will we carry into 2016? The American dream or Obama's dream? The future is not in my hands. It's not even in Obama's hands. The future is in your hands.”
Dinesh D'Souza (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do you live for?" I ask her suddenly. "Is it for me?Is it for family and love? Or is it for some dream?" "It's not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like.That they will own land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. She kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more.”
Pierce Brown (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my last book I said: “I have one dream: to find a dream.” A dream is a piece of the sky found in everyone. We can’t be boundlessly realistic or pragmatic. We are in need of the sky.”
Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am very happy, because I was able to represent all the girls, Pamela and Leticia, who did not qualify, all the girls from skateboarding and from Brazil. To be able to realize my dream of being here and winning a medal is very gratifying. My dream and my parents' dream.”
Rayssa Leal (born 2008) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d burn the bloody tree down myself if u thought it would bring you back’ he said quietly. ‘Everything is so hopeless anyway, why shouldn’t we be happy for a bit? We could have don’t that, couldn’t we? I think so it would have been messy but… Instead my mind gives me this’ He gestured around at the dream desert, the dream sky. ‘A fucking dream of you. As if that would be enough.”
Jenni Williams (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I stand here and say dream young child. Dream about life's infinite possibilities. Dream about walking into places you have never set foot, conversing with amazing people you never knew before and daring to give life your best shot.”
Palesa Molefe (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Working on television has always been a dream of mine. Being able to live out my dream is still surreal to me, so to be recognized for living my dream is truly a blessing I do not take for granted.”
Nenny B (born 1992) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nenny won recognition award in 2019.
“Every male referee has that dream too because it's their biggest competition.But my dream is not focused on the men's World Cup. My dream is the Women's World Cup [in Australia and New Zealand]. That is my first focus.”
Salima Mukansanga (born 1988) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No dream too big for AFCON's first woman referee Mukansanga amp.dw.com (02/04/2022 February 4, 2022)
“I had a dream to get to the top of my career and nothing was going to let me go off that dream. Sometimes it looked like a distant dream, sometime it would even fade to a dot in the horizon, sometime I would want to give up but the good thing was that I had a lot of supportive people who believed in me, people who, when the going got really rough, said to me, no, you cannot give up.”
Itunu Hotonu (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Aderonke Kale
“I dedicate this (award) to every African child who dares to dream. Dream big, discern the voices that are for you, stay focused and enjoy the journey. The award is a testimony that the dream of every child in Africa is achievable.”
Lucy Quist (born 1974) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: African kids must dream big – Lucy Quist, Ghana Web, 26 September 2015.
“The difference between a dream and a goal is the date. As long as you don’t put a date on it, it will always be a dream. When you put a date on a dream it becomes a goal.”
Dupe Olusola (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to accomplish your dream, the dream must stay consistent. You can’t go after a different dream every day”
Angela Ahrendts (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are still a lot of people who are doing this out of passion, out of love. We are doing this because being in the pageant is our dream, it’s our moms’ dream, or just a dream of special people around us. And for some people to discredit the hard work that we’re putting in this, is unfair.”
Mary Jean Lastimosa (born 1987) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . PEP.ph. 17 June 2020.
“Every adventure to be had in this room is on the dark side. The people on the light side are asleep right now. And they are dreaming about the dark side. Because the more you try to repress the dark side, the stronger it gets, until it finds its own way to the surface. I sleep well. I dream of angels and sponge cake and panda bears. I don’t see the dark side until I open my eyes.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you see my darling Out there in the crowd, Say I still remember Promises we vowed. Yesterday was dreaming, But my dream came tumbling down. Call the boys and tell them, Say I won't be there.”
Tom Springfield (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 172thumb|The universe is just there, and that is all.
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To dream and to create has been my fate, Alone, apart from life's more busy scheming ; I fear to think that I may find too late Vain was the toil, and idle was the dreaming.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1837 1) (Vol. 49) Memory
“Dreaming a dream to prize, Is wishing ghosts to rise; And, if I had the spell To call the buried — well, Which one would I?”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it”
Larry Page (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Larry Page’s University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009.
“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.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Separation has this lofty meaning: if love lasts years, if but a day it takes, love's just a dream and we're a moment dreaming, and whether early, whether late the waking, the time must finally arrive when we awake.”
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming Can touch life's height to a finer fire: Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, One lightning over the chasm runs — That to turn from love is the world's one treason That darkens all the suns.”
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one's subtle body travels outside of the physical body during the dream state, this experience is sometimes referred to as lucid dreaming. When metaphysicians are able to do this at will, the phenomenon is called astral projection or astral traveling: the ability to consciously leave the physical body and project the subtle body beyond its physical limitations.”
Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source