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.

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Most quoted on dreams:

And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

Anatole France The White Stone (1905)

Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.

Walt Disney

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

Peter Ustinov

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

R. A. Lafferty Space Chantey (1968)