“There is Providence, quaint and lordly on its seven hills over the blue harbour, with terraces of green leading up to steeples and citadels of living antiquity, and Newport climbing wraith-like from its dreaming breakwater. Arkham is there, with its moss-grown gambrel roofs and the rocky rolling meadows behind it; and antediluvian Kingsport hoary with stacked chimneys and deserted quays and overhanging gables, and the marvel of high cliffs and the milky-misted ocean with tolling buoys beyond.”
“Scent of the sea and fragrance of the fields; spell of the dark woods and joy of the orchards and gardens at dawn. These, Randolph Carter, are your city; for they are yourself. New-England bore you, and into your soul she poured a liquid loveliness which cannot die. This loveliness, moulded, crystallised, and polished by years of memory and dreaming, is your terraced wonder of elusive sunsets...”
“I knew as long as I lived she d haunt my dreams. That every night I d chase her through that field of yellow flowers, but I d never catch her, and she d never look back.”
“When it did, he dreamed of her. Dreamed of her standing on his balcony, goading him to come out and play. He dreamed of her hand tangling in his, a pulse of power twining them together. He dreamed of them racing through foreign streets, not the London ones they d navigated, but crooks and bends in places he d never been, and ones he might never see. But there she was, at his side, pulling him towards freedom.”
“It s not a dream That made the suspect scream. What did a mirror reveal? The incident is real.”
“Nothing worse than figuring out she was the girl of your dreams after you break up... Damn!”
“If it s all been dream and delirium may death ripen me in my dream.”
“Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Darwin were like you and me before they started dreaming. They dreamt and conquered.”
“Free-floating ambition is toxic because it means that anyone who has accomplished anything in any realm of human endeavor is the enemy because she might be your competition. So you hate everyone a little bit, but behind this wall of hatred you still feel vulnerable. And you are vulnerable, but not because of the competition. You re vulnerable because if anyone points you in anything that seems like a direction, that s where you ll go.”
“You are a mansion with infinite rooms, yet you ve convinced yourself you have to live in the basement.”
“Inspirational dreams stimulate us to explore and inquire. Constructive dreams encourage us to solve intractable problems and defeat our competitors. Working on personal or professional problems throughout a dreamy night assists us surmount personal frustrations, overcome cognitive obstructions, and surmount somatic barriers. Sensual dreams endorse pair bonding; promote the principle of natural selection, the desire of the individual to find the best mate and to achieve the optimum genetic mixing. Carnal dreams stimulate the human reflex to reproduce the species; such dreams oftentimes conflict with human values of fidelity and mating for life. Nightmares act as omens, warning us to beware of dangers. Lurid dreams signal us to exercise caution and personal restraint.”
“The dreamer, while he is dreaming certainly, does not question his dream. It is the same with the matter of time.”
“Already we mistrust wakefulness; if we are dreaming, then let us dream, until our dream convinces us.”
“Dreaming is only a sub-habit of an aware individual.”
“Did you found a wall that is blocking your dream? Paint your destiny on it. Do not break it; learn how to climb it. Do not go around it; go up there, take some buckets and a backpack too.”
“Optimism is the act of dreaming and believing at the same time. There is hope in optimism, otherwise pessimism would minimize the chances of the triumphal entry of hope.”
“Art is a four-dimensional effect, it teaches that we must take our dreams to the letter.”