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Quotes about Dream


If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer and his dream.

Sarah Pere

Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.

Kazi Shams

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

John Sterling

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Austin O'malley

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Archibald Macleish

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

H. F. Hedge

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

H. L. Mencken

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

Benjamin Rush

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

If one advances confidently in the directions 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

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak--little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

Joanna Baillie

If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

Thomas Lovell Bible

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Thomas Lovell Bible

"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee; Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."

Joseph Brenan (Brennan)

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.

Michael Bruce

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

Alfred Bunn

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

Alice Cary

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