Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I'm in my dream world.

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

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.