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.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that
I do not see any dreams!
To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!