Dark Dreams Quotes:

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

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Dream, Dark, People, Dark Dreams, Dark Souls

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Love, Dream, Art, Spiritual Darkness, Spooky

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Dream, Answers, Today, Inspirational Dream, Keep Dreaming

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

- Dennis L. McKiernan

source: Dennis L. McKiernan (2006). “Once Upon a Summer Day”, p.318, Penguin

topic: Dream, Dark, Blades, Dark Dreams

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

- T. E. Lawrence

source: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

topic: Inspirational, Success, Dream, Man Of My Dreams, May Day

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

topic: Love, Dream, Art, Pantheism, Dark Dreams

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

- Conrad Aiken

topic: Dream, Lying, Dark, Dark Dreams

I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.

- John Connolly

source: John Connolly (2015). “Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Dream, Pain, Dark Dreams, Caleb

For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.

- Mary Webb

source: Mary Webb (2016). “Gone To Earth”, p.194, Mary Webb

topic: Death, Dream, Dark, Dark Dreams, Reality Of Death

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Dwell On The Past, Inspirational Tattoo

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Dream, Dark, Long, Dark Dreams

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

- Jean Rhys

topic: Dream, Dark, London, Dark Dreams

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

- Anne Carson

topic: Running, Dream, Rain, Dark Dreams

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

- M. L. Stedman

source: M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Lying, Dark, Dark Dreams, Lulls

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.193

topic: Dream, Dark, Reality, Vipers, Dark Dreams

Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?

- Francesca Lia Block

source: Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.17, Zondervan

topic: Dream, Pain, Sleep, Panthers, Crossings

Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

- Mark Helprin

topic: Dream, Children, Memories, Dark Dreams, Redeemed