#dr

Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. "Lovely weather for the time o' year, is it not, ye wee scunner!" "Hey, jimmy, ha' ye no got a pommes frites for an ol'pal?" "The band is playin' divinely, I dinna think!" "Make my caviar deep-fried, wilya? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dreams

Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream. ↗

— Franz Werfel

#dreams

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#dreams

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dreams

When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together! ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#dreams

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#father #parenting #self-sacrifice #dreams

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#dreams

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world? ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#ecology #economics #environment #sustainability #dreams

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #dreams

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#despair #hope #longing #loss #love