Quotes About Dreams Memory

#1. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Maurice Chevalier

#2. The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.

Marcel Proust

#3. A childish story take, and with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined in Memory's mystic band ... thus grew the world of Wonderland.

A.G. Howard

#4. Memory is a cloudy, disjointed thing - like disconnected dreams with images scattered and thrown to settle where they please.

Patti Callahan Henry

#5. But that's what dreams are for - to weave reality and fantasy and memory and stitch together something you can't hope for in waking life. To fulfill that little part of you that wants something so bad.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

Lance Bass

#7. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

Wallace Stegner

#8. Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.

Jeff Rasley

#9. But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.

Heinrich Heine

#10. And my dreams felt as real as a memory

Katie Alender

#11. He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Harold Klemp

#13. For him, it appeared he could freeze
the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his
hands like water.

J.U. Scribe

#14. For years he had possessed her dreams, but she'd been the master of those dreams. Now, he possessed her memory, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Julie Lessman

#15. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

D.S. Mixell

#16. True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

#17. It's not vague,' Anna said. 'I'm certain of it. Just as when you're certain you did have a dream ... you knew you dreamed ... but you can't remember any of the details.

Eleanor Catton

#18. The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.

B.J. Neblett

#19. I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

Oskar Kokoschka

#20. When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.

Steve Erickson

#21. I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams ... Man ... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton

#22. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Kate Morton

#23. A memory can taint your dreams

Abilash Balan

#24. May every memory that you share
Of dreams you've seen come true,
Help make this special anniversary day
A happy one, for the two of you

John Walter Bratton

#25. In my restless dreams,
I see that town.
Silent Hill.

Sadamu Yamashita

#26. Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.

Eudora Welty

#27. Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

Pat Conroy

#28. when we're done, I'll be where the night never stops
cradling a bruise that's shaped like you
wondering why sleep never came to me
wondering how I still dreamed

Alicen Grey

#29. Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.

John Kramer

#30. Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#31. The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

Marilynne Robinson

#32. As he lay there, he was sure that he could still feel the memory of that strange hand cupping the back of his neck; and he couldn't believe how empty his mouth felt, now that it only had his own tongue in it.

Neil Bartlett

#33. The dream dissipated like smoke, and she tried so hard to hold it inside her heart and her memory, but like all dreams, it had never been meant to keep.

Christopher Golden

#34. I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

Ben Aaronovitch

#35. I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

Susanna Moore

#36. How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

Lisa See

#37. I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

Kim Edwards

#38. One of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs strung with drops of dew.

Stephen King

#39. Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn't become a dream just yet.
Because the sensation of your kisses
keep me from sleep.
I'm in love,
God help me, I'm in love.

F.K. Preston

#40. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov

Anton Chekhov

#41. Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#42. Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality's vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.

John Dolan

#43. The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.
The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow.

Farrah Naseem

#44. Kid, if you never remember your dreams you lose out on half of your life

Carla Speed McNeil

#45. Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.

Megan McKenna

#46. This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black
witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Ambrose Bierce

#47. When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

Dave McKean

#48. There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

P.D. Ouspensky

#49. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.

Jessica Brody

#50. We can't do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins.

Don DeLillo

#51. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off.

Andrea Randall

#52. He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

Francoise Sagan

#53. An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

Anna Held

#54. Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentile hand
Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far off land.

Lewis Carroll

#55. Odd snatches of memory, more like dreams.

Kate Morton

#56. At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Mark Batterson

#57. She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

L.M. Montgomery

#58. Dreams are memories we've lost to sleep.

F.K. Preston

#59. If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Jim Croce

#60. He spoke in the hoarse, cadenced tones of a lifelong teller of tales - one of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs string with drops of dew.

Stephen King

#61. I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

Lois Lowry

#62. On the surface, there is no distinction between our experiences - some are vivid, others opaque; some are pleasant, others cause agony upon recollection - but there is no way of knowing which are dreams and which are reality.

Silvina Ocampo

#63. We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

#64. He dreamed, as human beings always dream - random firings of memory and imagination that the unconscious mind tries to put together into coherent stories. Bean rarely paid attention to his own dreams, rarely even remembered that he dreamed at all. But

Orson Scott Card

#65. When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.

Laura Thalassa

#66. We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#67. Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Edward R. Murrow

#68. From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.

Ayelet Zurer

#69. Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Gary Ryan Blair

#70. Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?

Walter Abish