Lloyd Alexander Quotes

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

Every single one of us needs hope.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

I've got heaps of dreams.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

We live because of the dreams.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.