Amos Oz Quotes

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

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

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

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

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.