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.
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.
Awake thee, my Lady-Love!
Wake thee, and rise!
The sun through the bower peeps
Into thine eyes.
When we're all a mess I guess the only way out is a sweet dream.
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?
Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal.
The timely dew of sleep
Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines
Our eyelids.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid.
And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,
Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Who can wrestle against Sleep? — Yet is that giant very gentleness.