#dreaming

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

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

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA. ↗

— Dwyane Wade

#basketball #dreaming #football #football player #i

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #deal #dreaming #films #finance

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ↗

— Novalis

#dream #dreaming #near #waking

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams #dreams

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. ↗

— Celine Dion

#details #dreaming #familiar #into #keep

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗