Authors:

Dream Quotes - Page 152

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Oliver Sacks (2012). “An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales”, p.108, Vintage

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.417, e-artnow

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation