“That dreamers often lie.”
William Shakespeare
DreamersFunny
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.
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?”
William Shakespeare
Sleepless NightsRest
“Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; if it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”
William Shakespeare
Beautiful DreamsLove
“Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.”
William Shakespeare
DisbeliefFunny
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.”
William Shakespeare
Strange DreamsFunny
“For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee.”
William Shakespeare
LoveNight Thoughts
“Is it thy will thy image should keep open my heavy eyelids to the weary night?”
William Shakespeare
LongingSleepless Nights
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.”
William Shakespeare
WonderMagic
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
William Shakespeare
VisionsImagination
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”
William Shakespeare
NightmaresAnxiety
“O soft embalmer of the still midnight.”
John Keats
SleepNight
“I lived with visions for my company instead of men and women.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ImaginationSolitude
“Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing Boy.”
William Wordsworth
Growing UpLost Dreams
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ImaginationBelief
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Mark Twain
Keep DreamingHope
“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”
Oscar Wilde
DreamersArt
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
Oscar Wilde
AmbitionWitty
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
W. B. Yeats
ResponsibilityVision
“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
Kahlil Gibran
PassionDesire
“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.”
Heraclitus
SleepPurpose
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
VisionLeadership
“The imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself.”
William Blake
ImaginationLife
“A dream is the fulfilment of a wish.”
Sigmund Freud
WishesPsychology
“Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”
Charles Dickens
FuturePossibility
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
George Eliot
ActionHard Work