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.
I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.
You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest.
Deep rest and sweet, most like indeed to death's own quietness.
The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.