DREAMS QUOTES VIII

quotations about dreams & dreaming

The dream deceives; it leads to confusions; it is illusory. But it is not erroneous.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization


Not everything to which we are able to compare an object or an occurrence occurs in the dream as its symbol; on the other hand, the dream does not symbolize anything we may choose, but only specific elements of the dream thought. There are limitations on both sides.

SIGMUND FREUD

"Symbolism in the Dream", A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis


Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

CARL JUNG

Psychology of the Unconscious


Dreams are pegs for Superstition and Romance to hang their cloaks upon.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


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

MICHAEL PHELPS

Woman's Day, Apr. 1, 2009


Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Hypnos"


The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Sputnik Sweetheart


It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's for you electron blue

R.E.M.

"Sing for the Submarine"


In dreams no man wears a mask.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I dream, therefore I exist.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

A Madman's Defense


There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

GLEN COOK

The White Rose


If you're smart, then your dreams evolve, too.

MARIO BATALI

Esquire, Jun. 2004


Cinderella believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

WALT DISNEY

attributed, Not Another Dating Book


When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

GERALD G. MAY

The Awakened Heart


Once you have learned to do your dreaming wide awake, to balance your sanity not on the razor's edge of reason but on the double support, the fine balance, of reason and dream; once you have learned that, you cannot unlearn it any more than you can unlearn to think.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Word for World is Forest


No man lives long when his dreams are dead.

GENE WOLFE

The Claw of the Conciliator


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


My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet


Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Earth


I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

letter to Woodburn Harris, February/March 1929