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.
And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
In my time I've been very fortunate to see many of my dreams come true!
In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest
Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope.
But, ah! if empty dreams so please,
Love give me more such nights as these.
An apprentice is a master in dreams. A master is an apprentice even in dreams.