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.
I felt I was getting enraged
and losing my speech
like them losing their dreams.
The dream
Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East,
Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
All we can do is dream, or die,/dream that we do not die/and, at times, for a moment, wake.
Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.