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.
What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? (p182)
But love is a universal theme, as is pursuing your dreams and overcoming life’s struggles
I started football as a young girl with big dreams and I’m proud of how far it has taken me
Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.
My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.