Dreams Quotes
The word covers two things, the dreams you have asleep and the ones you have about your future, and this page leans towards the first. Shakespeare has by far the most entries, followed by Tennyson, Yeats and Pessoa. If you came for motivational lines about chasing your goals, you will find fewer of those than you might expect.
What you do find is better sourced than most. Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) is here, and so is Wittgenstein in Culture and Value (1980): “Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” The line “When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness” is credited to Tecumseh and is marked disputed.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
The dream too thinks twice,
gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes.
If you ever become fatigued from chasing your dreams, you are always welcome in my world of reality.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.