Unfulfilled Dreams Quotes

“The world was simpler in those days, Jaime thought, and men as well as swords were made of finer steel. Or was it only that he had been fifteen? They were all in their graves now, the Sword of the Morning and the Smiling Knight, the White Bull and Prince Lewyn, Ser Oswell Whent with his black humor, earnest Jon Darry, Simon Toyne and his Kingswood Brotherhood, bluff old Sumner Crakehall. And me, that boy I was … when did he die, I wonder? When I donned the white cloak? When I opened Aerys’s throat? That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.”
― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold Pt. 2

“Secure your dreams for they are the wings of your soul, and, when vulnerable, flight is inconceivable.”
― B.G. Bowers, Death and Life

“I need to realize that sometimes a shooting star isn't magic at all; sometimes it's just a bunch of space dust burning through the atmosphere. Sometimes you don't get a wish.”
― B.K. Borison, In the Weeds

“Often, unfulfilled promises by our loved ones can give us the worst feelings in the world.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“The pulsing heartbeat of true crime, of all human stories when you got right down to it, was we all wanted and hoped and dreamed and loved, but we had no control over what happened in the end. There was a reason why even the most sensationalistic supermarket paperback would tell you that the victim loved animals and wanted to be a veterinarian, or that another victim was three days away from her birthday.
"These books promise closure and justice," I said to Lenore, scratching her under her chin. "But ultimately they reinforce the reality that so many lives are interrupted, so many dreams unfulfilled.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“Sometimes we get more chances than we think we'll get. Sometimes we don't get the ones we want. I believe there are parallel lives swirling all around us where all our dreams came true and stayed. ⁣⠀”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Perhaps, like me, they found shelter in unfulfilled suburban pipedreams. And perhaps they mourned for the summer, felt the press of age, the ache of a world that barely turned and was not cruel or kind, but indifferent.”
― Scott Pearce, The Rider on the Bridge