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dream cities soul
You have been the last dream of my soul. Charles Dickens
dream years mind
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? Charles Caleb Colton
dream mistake philosophical
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. Charles Caleb Colton
dream fighting cities
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. Charles Dickens
dream rain eye
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her. Charles Dickens
dream heart night
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn. Charles Dickens
dream character wings
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. Charles Dickens
dream animal bird
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours. Charles Dickens
dream
I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun. Charles Stuart Calverley
useless-things cash way
And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way. Angela Carter
useless-things people trying
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing. Henry Ford
useless-things useless consumerism
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. George Eliot
useless-things two world
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. Georges Clemenceau
useless-things atheism littles
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. Frances Farmer
useless-things useless indispensable
Only useless things are indispensable. Francis Picabia
useless-things useless knows
I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. Mo Rocca
useless-things gold world
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol. Henry Ford
useless-things useless vain
Emperors are vain and useless things. Scott Westerfeld
nostalgia window partnership
If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window. Charlie Chaplin
nostalgia remember used
I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia. Demetri Martin
nostalgia
Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season. Michael Hagan
nostalgia individual form
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. Abbie Hoffman
nostalgia entitled
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. James Wolcott
nostalgia share masochism
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. Andrei Codrescu
nostalgia plus
Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait) Simone Signoret
nostalgia obsession purity
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. Georges Bernanos
nostalgia terrorism slave
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. Jean Baudrillard