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.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate,
For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
When you fall asleep counting planets, think upon others
Who cannot find a place to sleep.
Scattered in the wind
Earthboy calls me from my dreams:
Dirt is where the dreams must end.