“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe
DaydreamingImagination
Dreams Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DREAMS
Dreams Quotes
Read 200 of the best dreams quotes about following your dreams, big goals, imagination and the mystery of sleep, from Shakespeare, Poe, Keats and more.
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allan Poe
NightImagination
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Henry David Thoreau
CharacterSelf-Knowledge
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
Living Your DreamsInspiration
“Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we are to find out the secrets of our own nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-DiscoveryMystery
“The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream - he awoke and found it truth.”
John Keats
ImaginationDreams Come True
“Fled is that music: - do I wake or sleep?”
John Keats
WonderSleep
“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 a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
WonderImagination
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
VisionMagic
“Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”
William Wordsworth
Childhood DreamsNostalgia
“Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality.”
Lord Byron
SleepNight Dreams
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
RealityPhilosophy
“Come to me in the silence of the night; come in the speaking silence of a dream.”
Christina Rossetti
LoveNight Dreams
“Once a dream did weave a shade o'er my Angel-guarded bed.”
William Blake
Night DreamsChildhood
“Every night I go abroad afar into the land of Nod.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
BedtimeChildhood
“My bed is like a little boat; nurse helps me in when I embark.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
BedtimeAdventure
“He's dreaming now, and what do you think he's dreaming about? And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
Lewis Carroll
RealityFunny
“Dreams are the subtle Dower that make us rich an Hour.”
Emily Dickinson
Night DreamsRiches
“Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, if One wake at Morn.”
Emily Dickinson
RealityHope
“I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible.”
Walt Whitman
VisionHope
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Victor Hugo
FutureInspiration
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
DreamersVision
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France
Big GoalsBelief
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
Kahlil Gibran
FaithEternity
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
William Shakespeare
Strange DreamsFunny
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About Dreams Quotes
Dreams come in two kinds. There are the dreams we chase with our eyes open, our hopes, goals and ambitions for the future. And there are the mysterious dreams that visit us at night, full of strange places, forgotten faces and feelings we cannot explain. Both shape who we are and who we might become.
This collection brings together 200 of the best dreams quotes about following your dreams, imagination, big goals and the mystery of sleep, from William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Henry David Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and the Bible. Let them inspire your next big goal or simply keep you company before you drift off to sleep.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Dreams quotes.
What is the most famous quote about dreams?
Victor Hugo's "There is nothing like a dream to create the future" and Oscar Wilde's description of a dreamer who "sees the dawn before the rest of the world" are two of the most loved dream quotes. Shakespeare's "A dream itself is but a shadow" is another timeless classic.
What are good quotes about following your dreams?
Anatole France wrote that to accomplish great things, we must "not only act, but also dream," and Thoreau said "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." Both remind us that dreams need action to come true.
What are good quotes about night dreams?
Heraclitus observed that sleepers each turn aside "into a world of his own," and Byron wrote that "Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality." Shakespeare's Caliban even said he "cried to dream again" after waking.
What does the Bible say about dreams?
Joel 2:28 says "your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions," and Proverbs 29:18 warns that "where there is no vision, the people perish." Joseph and Jacob's famous dreams in Genesis are among the Bible's best-known stories.
What do dreams mean?
People have wondered for thousands of years. Aristotle believed a good dream interpreter notices