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Dream Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2011January 10, 2011 by

– “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

– “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

– “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

– “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

– “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

– “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

– “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

– “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

– “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

– “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

– “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

– “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

– “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

– “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

– “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

– “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

– “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

– “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

– “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

– “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

– “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

Night Quotes

Posted on January 3, 2011January 4, 2011 by

– “God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.” – David Nicholas

– “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

– “Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

– “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

– “A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.” – Ana Alas

– “Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.” – Catherine O’Hara

– “There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.” – N.P. Willis

– “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent Van Gogh

– “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” – Frederick L. Knowles

– “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

– “Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!” – Lord Byron, Childe Harold

– “Night is a world lit by itself.” – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

– “Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

– “By night, an atheist half believes in God.” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

– “O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.” – George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy

– “Moonlight is sculpture.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

– “Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.” – Martin H. Fischer

– “Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

– “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

– “What I take from my nights, I add to my days.” – Leon de Rotrou, Vencelas

– “Mine is the night, with all her stars.” – Edward Young