All CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Quotes about “Dreams”

“To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.”
“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
“Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.”
“There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.”
“Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.”
“The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.”
“Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.”

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