quotations about dreams & dreaming
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,--not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
"Berenice"
Dreams never deceive.
DEPECHE MODE
"Comatose"
In ... dreams there is a language that is older than the spoken word at all. The idiom is another specie and with it there can be no lie or no dissemblance of the truth.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
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
The Critic as Artist
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
AMY HEMPEL
"The Dog of the Marriage"
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
GLEN COOK
Water Sleeps
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
CARL JUNG
Man and His Symbols
In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
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Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dreams make all men authors.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation's Edge
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOT
Theophrastus Such
Dreams fade with morning light,
Never a morn for thee,
Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
JOYCE KILMER
"The Poet's Epitaph"
Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
People have dreams all the time. It don't mean nothin.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The Crossing
Don't let your reality change your dreams, let your dreams change reality.
ANONYMOUS
When we can't dream any longer we die.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Mother Earth Bulletin
The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"