James Frey Quotes

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

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

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

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

If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

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

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.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

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

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.