Dream Quotes

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Marcel Proust

Walt Disney

Carl Jung

Martin Luther King, Jr.

William Faulkner

Edgar Allan Poe

Umberto Eco

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Søren Kierkegaard

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Tell me about yourself—your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Sailor to girl at U.S.O. dance

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.

Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Charles Lindbergh

The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Bishop