Roxane Gay Quotes

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

I'm a person who thinks realistically but has dreams and fantasies as well.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

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

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!

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.