FastSaying

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.


André Breton

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.
HEATHER WOLF Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Wishing you sunshine and rainbows..
HEATHER WOLF Tangles of life: Things are busy, moments are time spent, goals are pathways, experience are shadows...
C. ANDREW Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C. Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES The censors were so far gone as to find the following sentence obscene: 'The factory gate waited for...
AKIRA KUROSAWA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA

More André Breton

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
ANDRé BRETON There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
ANDRé BRETON I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so co...
ANDRé BRETON The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
ANDRé BRETON The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...
ANDRé BRETON What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
ANDRé BRETON They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
ANDRé BRETON Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
ANDRé BRETON The imaginary is what tends to become real.
ANDRé BRETON At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
ANDRé BRETON I am the soul in limbo.
ANDRé BRETON (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...
ANDRé BRETON The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
ANDRé BRETON Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immedi...
ANDRé BRETON Uma palavra e tudo está salvo
Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.
ANDRé BRETON Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...
ANDRE BRETON It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
ANDRE BRETON I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing...
ANDRE BRETON Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
ANDRE BRETON The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
ANDRE BRETON To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag...
ANDRE BRETON What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ...
ANDRE BRETON Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ...
ANDRE BRETON Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th...
ANDRE BRETON To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le...
ANDRE BRETON There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem...
ANDRE BRETON Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav...
ANDRE BRETON No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional se...
ANDRE BRETON In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of thing...
ANDRE BRETON Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
ANDRE BRETON The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the ...
ANDRE BRETON To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what ...
ANDRE BRETON To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
NICHOLAS BRETON Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
ANDRE BRETON Words make love with one another.
ANDRE BRETON Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between...
ANDRE BRETON I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
ANDRE BRETON Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
ANDRE BRETON Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
ANDRE BRETON To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -even though it would mean the elimination of what i...
ANDRE BRETON The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot
ANDRE BRETON I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
NICHOLAS BRETON We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.
THIERRY BRETON Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in ...
ANDRE BRETON The currency is the sovereignty of China. We believe it best to have informal discussions than have ...
THIERRY BRETON The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
ANDRE BRETON I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse
NICHOLAS BRETON Overall I'm really happy with the way we played. You couldn't ask for a nicer win after a long layof...
PETER BRETON I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRé GIDE There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances...
ANDRé GIDE In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
ANDRé GIDE Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
ANDRé MALRAUX It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRé GIDE The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my ...
ANDRé BRINK To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touc...
ANDRé ACIMAN I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and f...
ANDRé BJERKE The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
ANDRé BAZIN What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
ANDRé MALRAUX How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn...
ANDRé ACIMAN This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...
ANDRé GIDE In love, no question is ever preposterous.
ANDRé BRINK We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRé GIDE Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben...
MARTINA ANDRé We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking eco...
ANDRé GLUCKSMANN In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRé MAUROIS The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
ANDRé MALRAUX The index, however, remains well below the peak of 60 reached in July last year.
ANDRé ROUX We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't f...
ANDRé ACIMAN It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass ...
ANDRé ACIMAN The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie...
ANDRé MAUROIS My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where mea...
ANDRé BRINK Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRé GIDE We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk...
ANDRé BERTHIAUME The manufacturing sector may be benefiting from the re-acceleration in global industrial production ...
ANDRé ROUX On balance, purchasing managers remain hesitant in the current manufacturing business climate.
ANDRé ROUX This confirms that manufacturing conditions are under pressure.
ANDRé ROUX This indicates that manufacturing activity picked up somewhat in December following the slowdown in ...
ANDRé ROUX Honestly, do we ask Jean Charest where he bought his pot from? If the person who sold him pot had li...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRé MALRAUX Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRé GIDE The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX I accept with humility and with great enthusiasm the mandate you have given me.
ANDRé BOISCLAIR It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE Mrs. Jean was not participating in a private event. Mrs. Jean was participating in a public event, t...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
ANDRé MALRAUX Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRé GIDE A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRé GIDE Our bodies won't have secrets now.
ANDRé ACIMAN Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRé GIDE You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
ANDRé GIDE You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not be...
ANDRé GIDE He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRé GIDE Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRé GIDE Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
ANDRé GIDE Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRé GIDE Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
ANDRé GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE The color of truth is grey.
ANDRé GIDE We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...
ANDRé GIDE Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRé GIDE Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life...
ANDRé GIDE On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout ri...
ANDRé GIDE Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
ANDRé GIDE God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRé GIDE Dare to be yourself
ANDRé GIDE One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRé GIDE Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
ANDRé GIDE I've never had problems of consumption. I have never been in a situation where I was under the influ...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...
ANDRé GIDE People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are...
ANDRé ACIMAN I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi...
ANDRé GIDE I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak...
ANDRé GIDE Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not ...
ANDRé GIDE I think everyone is wounded in their sex,” I said. “I can’t think of one person who isn’t.
ANDRé ACIMAN Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where ...
ANDRé ACIMAN Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared f...
ANDRé ALEXIS Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRé MAUROIS Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog...
ANDRé ACIMAN They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after h...
ANDRé ACIMAN The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), ...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once under...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé Ilusão - Só aqueles que conseguem ver atraves dela poderá criar a sua propria.
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA Illusion - Only those who can see through her can create his own
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w...
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be a...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK AND BARRY K. GILLS