7,638 Quotes About Dreams

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Now here you go againYou say you want your freedomWell who am I to keep you downIt's only right that you shouldPlay the way you feel itBut listen carefully to the soundOf your lonelinessLike a heartbeat ... drives you madIn the stillness of remembering what you hadAnd what you lost ...[Dreams]

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life.

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self.

An overturned cup of wine.A stone path sailing in moonlight.Where the blue grass is flattened,an azalea flower abandoned.The eucalyptus wood swirls.Stars above teem into a kaleidoscope.On a rusty anchor,eyes mirror the dizzy sky.Holding up a book to shade the candleand with a finger in between the lips,I sit in an eggshell quiet,having a semi-transparent dream.

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,or drought,or dust.Hard times are about losing spirit,and hope,and what happens when dreams dry up.