Top 100 Reality And Dream Quotes
#1. But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Marcel Proust
#2. Dream takes you to skies and reality just to the bed.
M.F. Moonzajer
#3. Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
Ian Curtis
#5. As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
Natalia Ginzburg
#6. When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
Brittany Bowe
#7. The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.
Mordechai Anielewicz
#8. Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Nikki Sixx
#9. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality
Norman Spinrad
#10. I just stopped from dreaming and woke up,
just like a dream to be loved back is just a dream you have to accept,
it was just glimpse of hopes you wanna take it to reality, nothing more, nothing less
Jinnul Jr.
#12. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.
Sawm Rad
#13. I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality
Jack London
#14. I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.
Emmitt Smith
#15. My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.
Andre Dubus
#16. Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#17. When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.
Nick Joaquin
#18. Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit!
Napoleon Hill
#19. You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
Peter F. Hamilton
#20. Dream and imagine what you want and you will bring it into reality.
Leonard Clifton
#21. Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
#23. I always believe that the bridge between reality and a dream is work.
Jared Leto
#24. I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.
Lauren F. Winner
#25. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
Donald Freed
#27. Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
#29. Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.
Mark LaMoure
#30. Are you a man?' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. 'I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again?
Christina Dodd
#31. We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
Arthur Machen
#32. Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#33. Truth: I realised there is no escaping reality but dreaming changes the perception of what it was to what it can become
C'mon now dream on dream big dream slow dream bright
Let your dreams flow let them take flight
Only your dreams alone can and will always show you the light
Lebogang Lynx Bopape
#34. Dream big!
But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.
Hasil Paudyal
#35. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.
Lillian Smith
#36. The dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
Elena Ferrante
#37. Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so.
Fernando Pessoa
#38. We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
George Lucas
#39. Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.
Nizar Qabbani
#40. Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#42. VOREN'S BRUSHSTROKES BEAT a steady cadence against the canvas, pausing only to dip into globs of vibrant paint to be renewed in color, in life, in power. Power to translate reality into dream, dream into emotion, and emotion - transcending comprehension - into its own newly expressed reality.
Nathan Garrison
#43. Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. When you go for it, you don't escape fear, you land in it. Fear is not a dragon to be slain once, it's an ocean to be swum daily.
Jon Acuff
#44. The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.
David Mutti Clark
#45. You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year.
London Fletcher
#46. At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.
Clarence H. Burns
#47. Nothing exists; all is a dream. God - man - the world - the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars - a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space - and you!
Mark Twain
#48. Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.
Dejan Stojanovic
#50. Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.
Chris Gardner
#51. And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. I do not fear death. I see what has gone before, through eyes that are not of this body. When I dream, my visions are of days yet to be.
Cathy M. Donnelly
#53. We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.
Robert Musil
#54. Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.
Andy Stanley
#55. One important thing about life : At my funeral, my living dream and my lived days must be in synchronism.
Myself
#56. Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair ... Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.
SebastiAn
#58. Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
Adyashanti
#60. A perpetual world; a world within a world. Of my mind and outside my mind. The real world is the dream world.
Fennel Hudson
#61. Swinging back and forth
deeply stuck
in tranced forbidden dream
Wanting not to recognize
fantasy
is purely scheme
Elaborate facade
of lust
into reality
Transferring thoughts
of illusion
will be fatality
Zuky Rose Leigh
#62. Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind ... then what is the difference between this world and a dream?
Kaori Ozaki
#63. As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
Wanda Coleman
#64. I live always in my dream,
so reality is my dream and dream is my reality.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.
Kate McGahan
#67. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality
Tony Robbins
#68. I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#69. The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Oscar Wilde
#70. Make Your wish Your Dream and Your Dream Your Goal; Your goal should be your passion to turn your wish into a reality
Ankit Mishra
#71. I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#72. Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
#73. A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.
Fernando Pessoa
#75. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Damien Rice
#76. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
#77. The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.
Ian K. Smith
#78. When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don't and you won't.
Karina Halle
#79. Dream what you want! Start creating your own reality! Work hard for it and the rest will follow! Love and Blessings!
Logan Henderson
#80. Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream
Jeremy Griffith
#81. Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.
Addoo S. Mukhtar
#82. Here lay the gateway between worlds, the divide between reality and fantasy. A dream or, depending on who waited, a nightmare.
Danielle L. Jensen
#83. Dare to dream big and to do what is required to turn it into a reality.
Amey Hegde
#84. And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means
W.E.B. Du Bois
#85. It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.
Donald MacRae
#86. War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
Gertrude Stein
#87. You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
#88. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
Cormac McCarthy
#89. When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in yourself and create a world where dreams become reality.
Charlene A. Wilson
#91. Well hit a broken dream can become even more beautiful and solid. So much to shatter the limits of reality.
Mathias Malzieu
#92. Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#93. We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#94. You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
Nikki Rowe
#96. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
Michael Dirda
#97. For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.
Tim Burton
#98. It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.
Jessie Douglas Kerruish
#99. He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.
Jorge Luis Borges
#100. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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