“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.…”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be lik…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org
“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”— Magdalena Abakanowicz, lc.edu
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”— Pat Conroy, amazon.com