Dreams Quotes · Page 8

Chase what sets your soul on fire with inspiring dreams quotes from visionaries who dared to imagine bigger. Your dreams are valid—let these words remind you.

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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!”

— Joseph Conrad

“Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”

— Anthony Trollope

“This world of imagination is the world of eternity.”

— William Blake

“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

— Joseph Joubert

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

— Paul the Apostle

“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”

— Rollo May

“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”

— Dorothy Parker

“That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is the event.”

— George MacDonald

“Though one discovery always surpasses another, and though the chemical and physical knowledge accumulated since his time has gone beyond all Lavoisier's dreams, his work, like…”

— Louis Pasteur

“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.”

— Italo Calvino

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals…”

— Italo Calvino

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”

— Louisa May Alcott