Famous Dream Quotations
Many famous people have had plenty to say about dreams and the act of dreaming. Here you will find a few quotes related to dreaming to reflect on.
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
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“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”
Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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“There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.”
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
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“I dream, therefore I become.”
Cheryl Renée Grossman
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They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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“In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.”
Ann Faraday
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935), "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Dream Within a Dream
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
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"When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully."
Anon.
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“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
Edgar Cayce
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
Carl Gustav Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
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