“O, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.”
William Shakespeare
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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.
“True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
William Shakespeare
Night DreamsImagination
“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife.”
William Shakespeare
Fairy TalesNight Dreams
“A dream itself is but a shadow.”
William Shakespeare
RealityPhilosophy
“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, my dreams presage some joyful news at hand.”
William Shakespeare
HopeGood News
“The clouds methought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.”
William Shakespeare
Beautiful DreamsLonging
“Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.”
William Shakespeare
LifeTime
“The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.”
Heraclitus
SleepInner World
“Dreams are very curious and unaccountable things. There are two gates through which these unsubstantial fancies proceed; the one is of horn, and the other ivory.”
Homer
MysteryMythology
“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”
Plato
Night DreamsHuman Nature
“While they dream they do not know that they are dreaming. Only when they are awake do they begin to know that they dreamed.”
Chuang Tzu
AwarenessPhilosophy
“For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
LifePhilosophy
“If we dreamt the same thing every night, it would affect us as much as the objects we see every day.”
Blaise Pascal
RealityPhilosophy
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
LifePhilosophy
“The most skilful interpreter of dreams is he who has the faculty of observing resemblances.”
Aristotle
Dream MeaningInsight
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Sigmund Freud
Dream MeaningPsychology
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
ImaginationVision
“Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
The Bible (Joel 2:28)
VisionFaith
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.”
The Bible (Genesis 28:12)
AspirationFaith
“And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren.”
The Bible (Genesis 37:5)
Sharing DreamsFamily
“Behold, this dreamer cometh.”
The Bible (Genesis 37:19)
DreamersCourage
“When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.”
The Bible (Psalm 126:1)
Dreams Come TrueJoy
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
The Bible (Proverbs 29:18)
VisionPurpose
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men; then he openeth the ears of men.”
The Bible (Job 33:15-16)
Night DreamsInsight
“For a dream cometh through the multitude of business.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:3)
Busy MindFunny