The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.
A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
Some men sicken, with wine and food;
I starved on dreams, and found them good.
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.
The ending of the dream,
the beginning of the wide awake
something big is coming...