Dream Quotes

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Dream Quotes and Quotes about Dreaming

A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~Colin Powell

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The Talmud

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~Jack Kerouac

All men of action are dreamers. ~James Huneker

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. ~William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives." Loyd: "Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." ~Barbara Kingsolver

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Do all you can to make your dreams come true. ~Joel Osteen

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. ~Joy Page

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean

Dream in a pragmatic way. ~Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ~H.F. Hedge

Dreaming men are haunted men. ~Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. ~Lope de Vega

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. ~Jane Roberts

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri Amiel

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman

Dreams are necessary to life. ~Anais Nin

Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown

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Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ~Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Terri Guillemets

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. ~Erma Bombeck

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~Anais Nin

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. ~Baltasar Gracian

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. ~Victor Hugo

Everybody's a dreamer. ~John Lithgow

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For a dreamer, night's the only time of day. ~From the movie Newsies

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear. ~Samuel Lover, Rory O' More

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ~Abdul Kalam

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ~Douglas Adams

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. ~Wordsworth

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet. ~Eva Green

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. ~Brian Schweitzer

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. ~Roy Orbison

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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Zhuangzi

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ~M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ~Madonna Ciccone

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. ~Debi Thomas

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. ~Charley Pride

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~ Eugene Ionesco

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ~Les Brown

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I'll take the dream I had last night, And put it in my freeer; So someday long and far away, when I'm an old grey greezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down, And dip my old cold toes in. ~Shel Silverstein

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. ~Mike Tyson

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. ~Mitch Hedberg

In a dream you are never eighty. ~Anne Sexton

In dreams begins responsibility. ~William Butler Yeats

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~Steven Kloves

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much. ~Louis de Bernières

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ~Erma Bombeck

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ~Akira Kurosawa

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. ~Donald G. Mitchell

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ~Joseph Campbell

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. ~Jim Bakker

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. ~E. V. Lucas

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ~Terry Pratchett

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ~Margaret Fuller

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Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. ~Herbert Kaufman

Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ~Dorothy Gilman

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ~Joseph Conrad

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. ~Tupac Shakur

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. ~Vivian Mercer

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~Christopher Reeve

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ~Paul Wellstone

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. ~Usher Raymond

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. ~Amy Lowell

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ~Paracelsus

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. ~Joseph Barbera

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~Paul Valery

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ~George Santayana

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. ~Sigmund Freud

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. ~Khalil Gibran

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The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ~David Herbert Lawrence

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? ~Robert Kennedy

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. ~Michael Bloomberg

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ~Michel de Montaigne

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~Anatole France

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? ~Joan Didion

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ~Jesse Owens

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true. ~Katie Holmes

Dream Quotes and Quotes about Dreaming

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ~Novalis

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. ~Erich Fromm

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. ~Lenny Wilkens

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming. ~Darren L. Johnson

When you cease to dream you cease to live. ~Malcolm Forbes

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~Carl Jung

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ~Gloria Steinem

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. ~Jerry B. Jenkins

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. ~Khalil Gibran

You can plant a dream. ~Anne Campbell

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You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ~Abdul Kalam

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. ~Herb Brooks

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

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