Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Haruki Murakami

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Haruki Murakami

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

Haruki Murakami

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

Haruki Murakami

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Haruki Murakami

In dreams begins responsiblities.

Haruki Murakami

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

Haruki Murakami

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Hans Selye

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Harlan Ellison

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Harlan Ellison

You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.

Harlan Coben

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.

Gustave Moreau

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Gustave Moreau

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...

Gustave Flaubert

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

Gustave Flaubert

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Gustave Flaubert

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

Gustave Flaubert

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Gustave Flaubert

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Gustave Flaubert

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Gustave Flaubert

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Grantland Rice

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

Greg Behrendt

It`s the prettiest place on the planet. My childhood was like a dream. It`s like the last Mayberry.

Greg Behrendt

It`s your version of whatever that is. We use those words because they are kind of empowering. Try to get back into your life and get back on track with dreams you have. There`s nothing more attractive than a person who likes herself.

Gore Verbinski

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Gordon Parks

I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.