Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
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 dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
With vassals and serfs at my side.
May there be no unfulfilled dreams like this
may there be realities that satisfy me.
Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
But I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.