DREAMS QUOTES VI

quotations about dreams & dreaming

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl


Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby


Dreams fade with morning light,
Never a morn for thee,
Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

JOYCE KILMER

"The Poet's Epitaph"


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

SIGMUND FREUD

The Interpretation of Dreams


The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them into reality.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


Why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Why the images, metaphors, pictures? Why the dreams, for that matter.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

"The Kekulé Problem: Where did language come from?", Nautilus, April 20, 2017


I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

EUGÈNE IONESCO

Man With Bags


Did you ever have a dream you were dreaming? You know. In your dream ... in you're dream you're having a dream. Dreams are the nearest univers parallele. Like the universe next door. So when you dream, you're really entering the universe next door. But if you dream you're dreaming, that's the universe NEXT to the universe next door ...

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising


The dream-state, from the standpoint of the waking, consists only of thinking and feeling. But the dreamer has no idea that he is dreaming, for according to his experience, tangible objects are also perceived. Thus the dream-state is definable in exactly the same terms as the waking.

JOHN LEVY

The Nature of Man According to the Vedanta


To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Interpretation of Dreams


The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech at the University of Berlin, May 12, 1910


The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

CARL JUNG

Psychology of the Unconscious


Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass, through many doors to the one door of all.

CONRAD AIKEN

The House of Dust


Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After


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

MUHAMMAD ALI

Esquire, Feb. 2012


Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

He Can Who Thinks He Can


Well now what's the use in dreamin'
You got better things to do
Dreams never did work for me anyway
Even when they did come true

BOB DYLAN

"I Feel a Change Comin' On"


The world would not have advanced very far had it not been for the contributions of its dreamers. It would never have gained its steamboat, nor its Atlantic cable, nor its wireless telegraph, nor its electric light. It would never have acquired any really great enterprise. For a little enterprise may be rustled and worried into being: but a really great program or movement or business must be dreamed.

BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON

More Power to You


The pillow is a silent sibyl--despise not its oracles.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil