#dreams

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#dreams

It is not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart is dark color: it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all. ↗

— Carolyn Parkhurst

#dreams

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams. ↗

— David Mamet

#real_life #tragedy #dreams

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken ↗

— Agatha Christie

#failure #failures #goals #heartbreak #rejection

You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#brandon #mull #prophecy #strength #weakness

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake. ↗

— Alyson Richman

#loss #love #torment #dreams

...the greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show. ↗

— From Dream Away song from The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

#hidden-pain #love-hurts #dreams

You are my absolution. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#love #dreams

Darlin’, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago.” I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, “Is that even possible?” “I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it’s possible. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#men #dreams

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#living-life-to-the-fullest #starting-over #dreams