All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal
America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.
BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, July 26, 2004
Dreaming men are haunted men.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, John Brown's Body
If I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE, The Dream
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.
WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
HUGH HEFNER, AskMen.com interview
If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.
GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medusa
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far,
Above the light of the morning star.
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
CARL JUNG, Man and His Symbols
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, To One in Paradise
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO, Minima Moralia
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Higher Pantheism
Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
NAPOLEON HILL, Think and Grow Rich
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
JONATHAN SWIFT, On Dreams
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.
JOHN LENNON, Imagine
In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.
OSHO, The Book of Secrets
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
WALT DISNEY, Sleeping Beauty
I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Madman's Defense
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Berenice"
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Eleonora"
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
We see but in dreams the ideal.
HENRI CAZALIS, "Always"
Dreams last as long as you let them ... both good and bad.
MICHAEL MARSHALL, The Upright Man
Listen to the colour of your dreams.
THE BEATLES, Tomorrow Never Knows
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.
BRAM STOKER, "Under the Sunset"
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Ex Oblivione"
