“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
OriginalityCourage
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.
“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle - something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead.”
Louisa May Alcott
Big DreamsLegacy
“Whatever comes, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Self-BeliefImagination
“Second to the right, and straight on till morning.”
J. M. Barrie
AdventureImagination
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough.”
J. M. Barrie
WishesHope
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”
L. Frank Baum
JourneyFairy Tales
“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
HappinessDreamers
“The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
G. K. Chesterton
Fairy TalesCourage
“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
VisionPossibility
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
DreamersCreativity
“Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
DreamersChange
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses: out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while, then closes within a dream.”
Ernest Dowson
LifeImpermanence
“Dream on, for dreams are sweet: do not awaken!”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sweet DreamsRest
“Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.”
The Bible (Genesis 28:16)
AwakeningFaith
“The dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God.”
The Bible (Genesis 41:32)
DestinyDream Meaning
“And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them.”
The Bible (Genesis 42:9)
Dreams Come TruePatience
“As a dream when one awaketh.”
The Bible (Psalm 73:20)
FleetingReality
“He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found.”
The Bible (Job 20:8)
FleetingImpermanence
“Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream.”
The Bible (Daniel 7:1)
Dream JournalVision
“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.”
The Bible (Daniel 2:19)
InsightNight Dreams
“The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.”
The Bible (1 Kings 3:5)
WishesFaith
“Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions.”
The Bible (Job 7:14)
NightmaresStruggle
“I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”
The Bible (Psalm 17:15)
Waking UpContentment
“And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.”
The Bible (Matthew 2:12)
GuidanceDivine Dreams
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:12)
Dreams Come TrueHope