DREAMS QUOTES VI

quotations about dreams & dreaming

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


Better to dream than to be.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Education of the Stoic


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


When we can't dream any longer we die.

EMMA GOLDMAN

Mother Earth Bulletin


You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

MICHAEL PHELPS

Woman's Day, Apr. 1, 2009


Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage


Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

GEORGE ELIOT

Theophrastus Such


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


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

MUHAMMAD ALI

Esquire, Feb. 2012


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


The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"


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


Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world--just no more confusing than any other.

ALEX GARLAND

The Coma


No man lives long when his dreams are dead.

GENE WOLFE

The Claw of the Conciliator


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


I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ideas of Good and Evil


No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

JOSé SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda


The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


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"


Dreams only change their houses.
They cannot be lined up against a wall
And quietly buried under ground,
And no more heard of ...
However deep the pit and heaped the clay--
Like seedlings of old time
Hooding a sacred rose under the ice cap of the world--
Dreams will to light.

LOLA RIDGE

"Dreams"