“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”
William Shakespeare
NightmaresImagination
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.
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
William Shakespeare
AmbitionReality
“If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear.”
William Shakespeare
Night DreamsMagic
“Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!'”
William Shakespeare
Sleepless NightsGuilt
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
William Shakespeare
LoveNight Dreams
“Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, in sleep a king, but waking no such matter.”
William Shakespeare
Lost LoveWaking Up
“Upon the honey'd middle of the night.”
John Keats
NightSweet Dreams
“Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
John Keats
Peaceful SleepBeauty
“I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
HopeRenewal
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”
Lord Byron
VisionsMystery
“Blessed barrier between day and day.”
William Wordsworth
SleepRest
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ImaginationVision
“Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!”
Edgar Allan Poe
YouthLonging
“Over the Mountains of the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow, ride, boldly ride, if you seek for Eldorado!”
Edgar Allan Poe
Chasing DreamsCourage
“So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
HumilityLonging
“Where sunless rivers weep their waves into the deep, she sleeps a charmed sleep.”
Christina Rossetti
DreamlandSleep
“I wander all night in my vision.”
Walt Whitman
Night DreamsWandering
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IllusionPhilosophy
“My Brownies, God bless them! who do one-half my work for me while I am fast asleep.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
CreativitySleep
“Life, what is it but a dream?”
Lewis Carroll
LifePhilosophy
“Nothing exists; all is a dream.”
Mark Twain
RealityPhilosophy
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
Victor Hugo
FutureCourage
“For even a dream is from Zeus.”
Homer
Divine DreamsMythology
“How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
Plato
RealityPhilosophy
“When thou hast roused thyself from sleep and hast perceived that they were only dreams which troubled thee, now in thy waking hours look at these as thou didst look at those.”
Marcus Aurelius
PerspectiveWorry