Alive, Alive, Oh!

“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”

“They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

“What if, by some miracle, this present turned out to be a dream, a hideous nightmare, and we were to awake renewed and cleansed, strong, upright and proud? Why do we never try to stand again when once we’ve fallen? When we lose one thing why don’t we search for another? I want our lives to be holy, sublime and solemn as the vault of heaven. Let us live! The thief on the cross had hope even though he had less than an hour left to him, and the sun only rises once a day, so take hold of what’s left of your life and save it.”

“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”

“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”

“Dreams themselves are footnotes. But not footnotes to life. Some other transaction they are so busy annotating all night long.”

“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”