Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhuangzi

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.

Zhuangzi

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

Zhuangzi

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?...someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe that they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, and that man a herdsman- how dense!

Zhuangzi

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

Zhuangzi

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

Zhuangzi

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

Zhuangzi

He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.

Zhuangzi

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

Zac Hanson

I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream.

Yves Rossy

Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

Yves Saint Laurent

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Yolanda King

I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make.

Youssef Ziedan

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

Yuichiro Miura

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream,

William H. Macy

I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.

William H. Macy

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

William Hazlitt

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

William Hazlitt

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

William Hazlitt

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

William Hazlitt

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

William Daniels

Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.

William Dean Howells

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William E. Gladstone

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Wen Jiabao

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.

Wendell Pierce

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

Wendell Willkie

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Wendell Berry

I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

Wendell Berry

As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.

Wendell Berry

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

Wendell Berry

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Wendell Berry

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.