Broken Dreams Quotes

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don’t redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

If you can dream it, you can do it.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? … Or does it explode?

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!

And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there’s promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It’s a place of broken dreams.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain’t bad as they seem.

Follow your dreams. They know the way.

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won’t. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound ‘current’ and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it’s our job to overcome these and to survive.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.