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.
Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams,
Words!
Ant-swarming city, city abounding in dreams,
Where ghosts in broad daylight accost the passerby!
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
Follow me on a journey into heaven and hell,
past angels and devils, into the realm of dreams.
There are many situations in life that we suddenly feel we have seen in dreams.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.