The 25 best famous phrases about dreams and hopes (2023)

Best hopes and dreams quotes

Discover 25 famous quotes and sayings about hopes and dreams from our favorite authors.

Favorite quotes about hopes and dreams

1. "Because the mines are for men, not money. And money isn't something to go mad and toss your hat in the air for. Money is for food, clothes and comfort and a visit to the cadres. Money is supposed to brighten the lives of children.Money is for security and for dreams and hopes and for purposes.Money is to buy the fruits of the earth from the country where you were born.
Author: Alan Paton

2. “Ah, had I not taken my life and given all that life gives and the years pass, the wind and the honey, the balm and the leaven, the lofty dreams and the downcast hopes? Come live come death Don Don't say a word to each other Shall I lose you alive and torment you dead I will never tell you on earth and in heaven when I call you then will you hear or will you know?
Autor: Algernon Charles Swinburne

3. “I keep my hopes and dreams for my children. If I make a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for her.”
Autor: Alison Sweeney

4. "Well! What's remarkable about all of this? Why did I record it? Because it was important enough to give me a happy evening, a night of pleasant dreams, and a morning of happy hopes. Foolish dreams, unfounded hopes, would you." to say, and I dare not deny: such suspicions have too often crossed my mind, But our desires are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances constantly strike sparks, which instantly vanish unless they fall by chance upon the tinder of ours Desires; then they are kindled immediately, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.
Author: Anne Brontë

5. "Don't you think I've ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? what about my life What about me? Don't you think it's ever crossed my mind to want to meet someone else? Men? That I wanted to lie down somewhere and forget my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh to make me feel good? You are not the only one who has wants and needs. But I held onto you, Troy... all of my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams... and I buried them in you. I planted myself in you waiting to blossom rocky.and I would never blossom".
Autor: August Wilson

6. “It was a gray day, the least sensual of all weathers; a day of dreams and distant hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in sunlight or vanish in mocking laughter in the moonlight. The trees and clouds were carved with classical severity; the sounds of the landscape had harmonized monotonously, metallic like a trumpet, breathless like the Greek urn."
Autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “Unfortunately, I write in my quiet room, alone as I always have been, alone as I always will be. And I wonder if my seemingly insignificant voice could not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls who, like mine, deal with their daily fate, their useless dreams, have reconciled their desperate hopes".
Author: Fernando Pessoa.

8. “All our hopes and dreams come to naught, and wicked people can hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater stupidity is there?”
Autor: James Lee Burke

9. "We see the death of dreams and hopes, but Jesus conquered death!"
Autor: Jayce O’Neal

10. “In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside which there is nothing. Surely this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not been successful in their life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that only reality matters and that dreams, expectations, and hopes only serve to define the human being as broken dreams, dashed hopes, and futile expectations.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

11. "Meanwhile spring came. My old gloom passed, making way for the turmoil that spring brings, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires."
Author: Leo Tolstoy

12. “The library card is a passport to wonders and wonders, glimpses of other lives, religions, experiences, hopes, dreams and aspirations of ALL people, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world that is beyond ours Front doors is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, lawlessness and ignorance."
Author: Libba Bray

13. "I think he grows up and then he starts dreaming dreams and he has hopes and fears and worries without knowing why or being unable to explain them."
Autor: Louisa May Alcott

14. “Dreams are not lands of happiness. Bad dreams are misinterpreted as nightmares. In truth, we only have nightmares. When you sleep, your brain wanders, bringing up thoughts full of hopes and fears. "Anxious thoughts are haunting you. Dreams are nightmares. Hopeful dreams are your likely never-fulfilled wishes, which are their own kind of nightmares."
Author: Baden Lynn

15. "People think that dreams aren't real just because they're not made of matter or particles. dreams are real But they are made of angles, images, memories, puns and lost hopes.”
Autor: Neil Gaiman

16. "Because I wanted to see her more than I wanted to hold her or kiss her. to spend time with her. to talk to her I wanted to see her roll her eyes when she said something ridiculous, to feel her hand on her arms like the day before. To see her nervously tuck her strands of hair behind her ear, and to hear her tell him about her childhood said he wanted to ask her about her dreams and hopes for the future, he wanted to know her secrets."
Autor: Nicholas Sparks

17. "I turn from the light into the night, holy, unspeakable and mysterious. Far away lies the world - sunk in a deep vault, its place deserted and lonely. Through my heart plays a quiet melancholy. I will fall in dewdrops and they melt with the ashes.Distant memories, the longings of youth, the dreams of childhood, the brief joys and the vain hopes of long life, all appear robed in grey, like the evening mist after sunset.In other lands the light has its merry ones Tents pitched, and if she had never returned to her children, who would await her dawn with the innocence of faith?"
Author: Novalis

18. "Away I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious night. Far away lies the world - sunk in a deep grave - desolate and lonely is its place. A deep sadness blows in the chest strings. I am ready, in drops to sink with dew and mingle with the ashes.- The distant memories, the longings of youth, the dreams of childhood, the short joys and the vain hopes of long life appear in gray robes, like a sunset "steam after sunset. In other regions the light has pitched its happy tents. And if she has never returned to her children, who awaits her with the belief of innocence?"
Author: Novalis

19. "And then I wonder who I'm looking at. All these people must have their dreams too. And maybe that's why they're on the bus to New York City. Maybe they want to be dancers or singers, or run or sell big companies. It's weird trying to think about everyone else like my brain isn't big enough to tie all of their stories together in my head, and it makes me wobbly trying to imagine all the hopes and dreams that are fill this bus".
Author: Sarah Rubín

20. “Our dreams go on forever and our ambitions and our hopes and the great play of our ideas reaches eternity. But we live in time. We die in time.”
Autor: Sean Stewart

21. “Despite professional failures and life changes, she stood by me. Despite my dreams being shattered and my hopes almost realized, she stood by me too.”
Author: Shannon Celebi

22. “When those responsible for running the state begin to move in shameful ways; when they begin to destroy the fabric of what holds our nation together; when they violate our nation's Constitution and start doing such things are wrong to our dreams and our hopes - it is every citizen's legal, but also responsibility, duty to challenge this government to speak out in vigorous opposition and the Art and the way the state does business should be charged with patriotic treason!
Autor: Teddy Roosevelt

23. "All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany's third thought said: Then arm selfishness! Make all things your own! Make other lives, dreams and hopes yours!" Protect her! save her! Take her on the path the storm for her! Keep the wolf away! My dreams! My brother! My family! My country! My world! How dare you take these things 'cause they're mine! I have a duty!
Autor: Terry Pratchett

24. “Looking up to heaven should be our lifelong aspiration. Some foolish people turn away from God's wisdom and follow the lure of fickle fashion, the lure of false popularity, and the excitement of the moment. Its course is similar in behavior to the disastrous experience of Esau, who traded his birthright for a bowl of soup. And what are the consequences of such an act? I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and shattered hopes. What a swamp of quicksand! I ask you to avoid it. You are of noble birth. Your goal is eternal life in our Father’s kingdom.”
Autor: Thomas S. Monson

25. "Like the phoenix, socialism will be reborn from every heap of ashes left day after day, human dreams burned and hopes charred."
Autor: Zygmunt Bauman