Quotes of Dreaming - somelinesforyou

“ I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ”

- Rene Descartes

“ We are close to waking up when we dream that we are dreaming. ”

- Novalis

“ The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas. ”

- Melvin Powers

“ Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ”

- Novalis

“ Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary. ”

- Robert Carlyle

“ Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry. ”

- Edward Fitzgerald

“ A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ”

- Jean Genet

“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

- William Gibson

“ Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. ”

- Jeff Greenfield

“ Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream. ”

- John Alan Appleman

“ Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming. ”

- J.P. McEvoy

“ A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. ”

- Unknown

“ Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ”

- William Charles Dement

“ Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ”

- William Charles Dement

“ Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ”

- Constanze

“ I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ”

- George McGovern

“ Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. ”

- H.F. Hedge

“ All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ”

- Kerouac Jack

“ Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ”

- Francis Herbert Hedge

“ Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. ”

- Adelaide Proctor

“ Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. ”

- Victor Hugo
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