“The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.”
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.
“My life stands in the level of your dreams.”
William Shakespeare
HopeLove
“This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep did mock sad fools withal.”
William Shakespeare
WonderDreams Come True
“My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars.”
William Shakespeare
PremonitionDestiny
“Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, desiring this man's art and that man's scope.”
William Shakespeare
LongingAmbition
“Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see the winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes?”
John Keats
WonderDaydreaming
“Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks our ready minds to fellowship divine.”
John Keats
HappinessImagination
“We look before and after, and pine for what is not.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
LongingHuman Nature
“We are laid asleep in body, and become a living soul.”
William Wordsworth
Inner LifePeace
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ThoughtsAction
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand.”
W. B. Yeats
FantasyMagic
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once.”
W. B. Yeats
MemoriesLove
“The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore
AspirationsNature
“Someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream.”
Chuang Tzu
AwakeningPhilosophy
“Sleep is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even.”
Miguel de Cervantes
SleepEquality
“Dear love, for nothing less than thee would I have broke this happy dream.”
John Donne
LoveWaking Up
“But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
John Milton
Lost LoveGrief
“As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.”
John Bunyan
JourneyVision
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Big DreamsMindset
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Horace Mann
PurposeLegacy
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
Orison Swett Marden
DreamersSuccess
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
Orison Swett Marden
HopeMotivation
“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing.”
Orison Swett Marden
PotentialSelf-Belief
“Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
James Allen
Dreams Come TrueGrowth
“The dreamers are the saviours of the world.”
James Allen
DreamersChange