823 Quotes Regarding Dreams


To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Chinese Proverb

If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.
Chinese Proverb

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.
Chuang

A dream is a wish your heart makes - When you're fast asleep.
Cinderella

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

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

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

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
Samuel Johnson

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Thomas Edward Lawrence

Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry
Michael Leiris

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing
John Locke

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pinrandello

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Sir Walter Scott

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis Thompson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau