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.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing.
Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.
The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable.
It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.
I have found out that reading is a slavish sort of dreaming. If I must dream, why not my own dreams?
In you, I see the Dreams that I have always dreamed/longed for!
Take each other, leave each other, seek each other in turn:
Nothing is real but dreams and love.
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.