Dream Quotes

Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then neither do our nightmares.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust though art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and our friends.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance.