#dream

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#cows #dreaming #impenetrable-shadows #planet-earth #the-universe

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#vitality #dreams

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#dream #nightmare #dreams

Dreams are one treasure that God has bestowed on everyone without any discrimination. ↗

— Jyoti Arora

#dreams-quotes #dreams

The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetry #dreams

لقد تعلمتُ واعتدت أن أستخرج من الأحلام التي لم تتحق قط ، أسبابًا متماسكة لمواصلة العيش ↗

— Álvaro Mutis

#life #noval #dreams

Be careful what you wish for... ↗

— Beth Bares

#dreams

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#myth #rosenberg #dreams

if you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping ↗

— Ralph Green and Gregory Garcia

#dreams

An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies. ↗

— Emily Whitman

#fantasies #lies #dreams