Eduardo Galeano Quotes

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

My dreams are all follies.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.