Top 100 Quotes About Lost Dreams
#1. Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
Barbara De Angelis
#2. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
#3. Loss, be it the death of a loved one, deteriorating health, lost dreams, or some kind of divine interruption . . . will usually include a measure of pain. Your positive attitude, perspective change, and faith are what will turn your wailing into praise and joyful dancing.
Cheryl Zelenka
#5. The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
Robert E. Howard
#6. I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people's nightmares.
Bauvard
#7. The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?
Callie Hunter
#8. You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.
Karen Quan
#10. Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
Janey Colbourne
#12. Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.
Jack Gilbert
#13. Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.
Wislawa Szymborska
#14. Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
What matters one lost vision of the night?
Let the dream go! ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#16. Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.
Tony Evans
#17. Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I lost myself in his eyes that stroked my soul and punctured my heart, like a poison arrow in a shooting star
Aishabella Sheikh
#18. One more thing. The people and the friends that we have lost ... or the dreams that have faded ... never forget them.
Yuna
#19. I want to know who you are, Tristan. I want to know where you go when you get lost in your mind. I want to know what makes you shout in your dreams. I want to see the darkness in you that you fight daily to keep hidden.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#20. I wonder who my father is when he isn't just my dad, the guy who helps me with my math homework...He is someone who grew up, who had dreams, who maybe lost them, who fells things.
Olivia Birdsall
#21. It is a season of hopelessness, of being lost, of wishing I could turn to dust and melt with the rain. Dreams and nightmares swell into my world, blur my vision with the broken boundaries of reality.
Addison Moore
#22. For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.
And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.
John Connolly
#23. And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.
Gabrielle Zevin
#24. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind," she said with a hint
of sadness.
"You lost your mind a long time ago," he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. "That's a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind," he reaffirmed her.
Daniel J. Rice
#25. The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks and I can't seem to catch my breath. I couldn't tell anybody my dreams if they asked me right now, nor my hopes and desires. If I was asked to put a plan into action, I wouldn't know where to start. I feel utterly lost.
Cecelia Ahern
#26. When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost ...
Gary Taaffe
#27. Before the dick, I had my shit together. I had goals, dreams, and aspirations. But after the dick, I was lost, turned out all over again, and needed Iyanla to fix my life.
Jessica N. Watkins
#28. The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
Dick Cheney
#29. A dream you once were,
A dream of all my realities,
A dream I can no long strive for
In the wake of my manly betayals
C. Elizabeth
#30. From all my dreams where you felt everlasting
to all my clothes your words used to wear,
to the old end, to the new beginning,
you have lost me everywhere.
Khadija Rupa
#31. For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
Mariella Frostrup
#32. 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
#33. If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.
T.D. Jakes
#34. I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#35. Don't let me to be lost in my dreams; they are as scary as your sweetness.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. I'm just tired of everything ... even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes ... echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. Spreading its wings, her love stretched out and touching his tangled, frozen soul and from the first word, became ensnared in its icy grip where it remained, intrinsically entwined within an alternating web of dreams and nightmares. Forever lost, forever lost...
Virginia Alison
#38. Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Guy Sajer
#39. It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
Mary E. Pearson
#40. Stein lifted his hand. "And do you know how many opportunities I let escape; how many dreams I had lost that had come in my way?" He shook his head regretfully. "It seems to me that some would have been very fine - if I had made them come true. Do you know how many? Perhaps I myself don't know.
Joseph Conrad
#41. What am I to do?
What is my destiny?
I have no idea, not a clue
Feeling lost and empty.
What is my dream?
What is my future?
I beg thee to listen to me,
I beg thee to answer.
Atarah L. Poling
#42. Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
Bohumil Hrabal
#43. If the dreams of the last speaker of Chamicuro won't survive the passage into another language, then what else has been lost? What else that was expressible in that language cannot be said in another?
Emily St. John Mandel
#45. You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens ... loudly screamed ...
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams ...
Maya Angelou
#46. It flashed as a guiding light whilst
Duran was lost in his dreams
Veronica Purcell
#48. He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
H.P. Lovecraft
#50. They are four people as similar as they are unique - one at the end of his career, one lost in the middle, one who dreams of beginning, and the fourth, a child, not knowing what is ahead of him.
Richard J. Alley
#51. Our first dreams grip us tightest and can refuse to let go. In some cases, that's a good thing - we need firemen and ballerinas, and Prince William did have to find a wife - but for the rest of us, it can be dangerous when you get lost in the details.
Rebecca Dana
#53. People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
Neil Gaiman
#54. I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.
Kami Garcia
#55. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
Yasmine El Rashidi
#56. Go for your dreams and get lost to find yourself again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#57. It's good to have an idea about what you want to do with your life before just doing things. If you have goals and dreams, it doesn't really matter if you achieve them, but if you have them it's much easier to not get lost. It's easier to make decisions.
Tove Styrke
#58. You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#60. The thought of never crossing your path again is to enormous to bare, so for now I'll make dreams in my heart and remind myself to go and sit & remember them every once in a while.
Nikki Rowe
#61. Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
#62. Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
Bruce Springsteen
#63. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.
Lana Del Rey
#64. Listen to the winds for the answers that you seek. Follow the sun for the destination of your dreams. If you get lost and are left all alone, follow the light of the moon and he'll guide you home..
Jamie Edson
#65. Foggy little oxbows
Forest pools where no one goes
Lost links of the river dreaming dreams
Erin Bow
#66. There is potential for boundless good in the boy I knew. Trust that the man you see now is a shadow of what lies beneath. If you would, give him the love that will enable him to see it for himself. To a lost soul, such a treasure is worth its weight in gold. Worth its weight in dreams.
Renee Ahdieh
#67. Lost and Found
A sunken chest,
on the ocean ground,
to never be found
was where he found me.
There he stirred,
my every thought,
my every word,
so gently, so profoundly.
Now I am kept,
from dreams I dreamt,
when once I slept,
so soundly.
Lang Leav
#68. Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
Laini Taylor
#69. Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.
Dan Fogelberg
#70. Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.
Sigmund Freud
#71. I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town
I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes
And they all fall down.
- Sleeping to Dream
Jason Mraz
#72. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
#73. We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.
Kent Nerburn
#74. We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.
Annette Bening
#75. Mostly because I've realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn't like drinking mash; I didn't have sex. I read books and had an inferiority complex because I was afraid to do all that other stuff. I don't know anything about being a badass punk rocker.
Karin Tidbeck
#76. Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!
George H. W. Bush
#77. I feel like I'm stuck inside my body. Everyone's moved forward, but I've been stuck in the same place. Since I've come into all this awareness lately, the hardest part has been remembering who I used to be, the dreams that died, the years I've lost.
Sidney Halston
#78. A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides
#79. You may cry out tears for misplacing your money, but you got to cry out blood if you have misplaced your dreams. Sadly, you may not even know the great deal of influence you loss when you misplace your dreams, so how will you cry for such a loss?
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams?
Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible.
Matthew Donnelly
#81. I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.
Franny Armstrong
#82. In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.
George R R Martin
#83. Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
Khadija Rupa
#84. You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Elie Wiesel
#87. But up and down the lamplit roads Youth wandered , and Hope, and Love, arm held close in arm, full in faith, dreaming star-hued dreams.
Are not our dreams the lamps on a rainy road?
Ethel Carnie
#88. We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. Occasionally he will catch the whispers of this abandoned voice, in the afterglow of certain dreams with that lingering sense of a paradise lost, reminding him of another kind of life, the life he was always meant to live, but for whatever reason, he did not.1
Michael Goorjian
#90. Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
Vladimir Nabokov
#91. In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.
Nida
Faiqa Mansab
#92. The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
Nick Denton
#93. As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
Dante Alighieri
#94. I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. This is not who I am.
Except, of course, it was. It was all there was left to be.
Alexis Hall
#95. Cause getting your dreams
It's strange, but it seems
A little
well
complicated
There's a kind of a sort of : cost
There's a couple of things get : lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed.
Stephen Schwartz
#96. As a man thinketh so is he?
The faith of a mustard seed?
I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#97. I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.
Jenim Dibie
#98. Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.
Carolyn Hart
#99. When your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
Tom Waits
#100. But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams.
Paulo Coelho
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