Amos Oz Quotes

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

My dreams are all follies.

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. 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 are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

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

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

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

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

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.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

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