#dreaming

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#writing #dreams

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ↗

— Zhuangzi

#around #awoke #being #butterfly #dreamed

I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#life-and-living #self-awareness #the-sand-child #dreams

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#dreaming #experience #fulfillment #impossible #olympics

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#cause #die #dreaming #keep #stop

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. ↗

— John Lennon

#connection #dreamers #dreaming #dreams #hope

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#dreaming #dreams #night #dreams

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#band #being #corporate #dreaming #experience

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dreamer #dreaming #his #must #only