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.
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.
Retribution—ah, my friend, retribution is the sweetest of all sweet dark dreams.
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.