“There are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep.”
René Descartes
RealityPhilosophy
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.
“Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.”
Miguel de Cervantes
SleepGratitude
“What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
LifeIllusion
“If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.”
Rudyard Kipling
BalanceAmbition
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
Louisa May Alcott
AspirationsHope
“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
Emily Brontë
Powerful DreamsChange
“Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.”
Leigh Hunt
PeaceNight Dreams
“Like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.”
Kahlil Gibran
HopePatience
“For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the duke of Chau.”
Confucius
AgingInspiration
“Nothing can be imagined so absurd, so incongruous, or so monstrous, that we cannot dream it.”
Cicero
Strange DreamsImagination
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
James Russell Lowell
Big GoalsAmbition
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
W. B. Yeats
VulnerabilityLove
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.”
Joseph Conrad
LifePhilosophy
“We live, as we dream - alone.”
Joseph Conrad
SolitudeInner World
“I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.”
The Bible (Daniel 2:3)
Troubling DreamsMeaning
“We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.”
The Bible (Genesis 40:8)
Dream MeaningMystery
“If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will speak unto him in a dream.”
The Bible (Numbers 12:6)
Divine DreamsFaith
“For so he giveth his beloved sleep.”
The Bible (Psalm 127:2)
RestBlessing
“It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty.”
The Bible (Isaiah 29:8)
Empty DreamsReality
“When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.”
The Bible (Proverbs 3:24)
Sweet SleepPeace
“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.”
The Bible (Psalm 4:8)
Peaceful SleepFaith
“I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.”
The Bible (Matthew 27:19)
Troubling DreamsWarning
“For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:7)
VanityWisdom
“I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.”
The Bible (Genesis 41:15)
Dream MeaningWisdom
“The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 23:28)
Sharing DreamsHonesty