Quotes about dreams

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."

"Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become."

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."

"Life is never easy for those who dream."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."

"Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams." :))))

"The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true"

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

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

If I dream I have you, I have you,For, all our joys are but fantastical. (JOHN DONNE, The Dream)

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy grey eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, To One in Paradise

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will be as one.

JOHN LENNON, Imagine

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

WALT DISNEY, Sleeping Beauty

I dream, therefore I exist.

AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Madman's Defense

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man

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 realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Berenice"

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

In dreams no man wears a mask.

EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims

Listen to the colour of your dreams.

THE BEATLES, Tomorrow Never Knows

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

BRAM STOKER, "Under the Sunset"

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

TIM LEBBON, Face

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

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.

PABLO NERUDA, Sonnet XXI

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

ALEX GARLAND, The Coma

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

TIM LEBBON, Face

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

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"

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

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."

"Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become."

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."

"Life is never easy for those who dream."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."

"Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams." :))))

"The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true"

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

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

If I dream I have you, I have you,For, all our joys are but fantastical. (JOHN DONNE, The Dream)

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy grey eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, To One in Paradise

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will be as one.

JOHN LENNON, Imagine

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

WALT DISNEY, Sleeping Beauty

I dream, therefore I exist.

AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Madman's Defense

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man

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 realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Berenice"

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

In dreams no man wears a mask.

EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims

Listen to the colour of your dreams.

THE BEATLES, Tomorrow Never Knows

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

BRAM STOKER, "Under the Sunset"

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

TIM LEBBON, Face

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

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.

PABLO NERUDA, Sonnet XXI

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

ALEX GARLAND, The Coma

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

TIM LEBBON, Face

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

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"

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

Source: http://mydreamview.blogspot.com/2010/08/quotes-about-dreams.html