Lauren Beukes Quotes

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

I'm often lost in my dreams.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

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

Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

I'm a daydreamer.