Dreams Crushed Quotes

#1. Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?

Thomas Pynchon

#2. Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.

Parul Wadhwa

#3. I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Constance Zimmer

#4. Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

Jodi Picoult

#5. Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

David Letterman

#6. The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

Mark Kurlansky

#8. The robots, on the other hand, acted like a bunch of youthful dreams and got thoroughly crushed.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

Craig Ferguson

#10. I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.

Kevin Systrom

#11. I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Junot Diaz

#12. I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Shane McAnally

#13. Yeah, Roach is the resident

Lauren Oliver

#14. Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#16. Don't," she said to her brother.
"What?"
"Don't act like I'm dead already. I, for one, am not giving up.

Melissa De La Cruz

#17. A hammock is like a steady drip of morphine, without the danger of renal failure.

Dale Gribble

#18. What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

S. Hunter Nisbet

#19. How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Ann Voskamp

#20. When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.

Owl City

#21. And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#22. Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions, go over, under, through.

Tina Fey

#23. I'm not going to end up in some heap of crushed dreams.

Steven Dos Santos