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.
Dreams of the summer night!
Tell her, her lover keeps
Watch! while in slumbers light
She sleeps.
"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
Then Sleep and Death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
In your dream no one is a refugee.
Everyone has clean sheets.
Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. p.83
Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.