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.
It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.
Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine to be in this position."
This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.
The soul speaks to itself in parables. Like those dreams that have pleased us.
"Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away."