DREAMS QUOTES

quotations about dreams & dreaming

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All night the dark buds of dreams open richly. In the center of every petal is a letter, and you imagine if you could only remember and string them all together they would spell the answer.

MARY OLIVER

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We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

GAO XINGJIAN

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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect.

JOHN KEATS

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But slightly affected by scientific opinion and untroubled as to the origin of dreams, the popular view holds firmly to the belief that dreams really have got a meaning, in some way they do foretell the future, whilst the meaning can be unravelled in some way or other from its oft bizarre and enigmatical content. The reading of dreams consists in replacing the events of the dream, so far as remembered, by other events. This is done either scene by scene, according to some rigid key, or the dream as a whole is replaced by something else of which it was a symbol. Serious-minded persons laugh at these efforts--"Dreams are but sea-foam!"

SIGMUND FREUD

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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

NICHOLAS BLACK ELK

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In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

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America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

BILL CLINTON

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

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.

K. T. WITTEN

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

WILLIAM DEMENT

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A dream is a wish your heart makes.

WALT DISNEY

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Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

ALEX GARLAND

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Dreaming men are haunted men.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT

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Before leaving these infantile dreams, which are obviously unrealized desires, we must not fail to mention another chief characteristic of dreams, one that has been long noticed, and one which stands out most clearly in this class. I can replace any of these dreams by a phrase expressing a desire. If the sea trip had only lasted longer; if I were only washed and dressed; if I had only been allowed to keep the cherries instead of giving them to my uncle. But the dream gives something more than the choice, for here the desire is already realized; its realization is real and actual. The dream presentations consist chiefly, if not wholly, of scenes and mainly of visual sense images. Hence a kind of transformation is not entirely absent in this class of dreams, and this may be fairly designated as the dream work. An idea merely existing in the region of possibility is replaced by a vision of its accomplishment.

SIGMUND FREUD

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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

ANAIS NIN

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If I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.

JOHN DONNE

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