Quotes about dream

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

— Douglas Adams

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

— Fred A. Allen

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

— James Allen

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

— Woody Allen

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.

— John A. Appleman

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

— Tony Arata

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

— Neil Armstrong

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

— Matthew Arnold

When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.

— Isaac Asimov

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

— W. H. Auden

Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.

— Babyface

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

— Richard Bach

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

— Gaston Bachelard

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

— Djuna Barnes

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

— John Barrymore

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

— St. Basil

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasticus 34:2]

— Bible

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

— Vic Braden

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

— Emily Bronte

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

You have the courage and power to live your dreams.

— Les Brown

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

— Les Brown

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

— John Bunyan

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

— Eric Burdon

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

— Leo Burnett

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

— William S. Burroughs

Follow your bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

— Joyce Chapman

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

— John Cheever

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

— Tom Clancy

When I dream, I am ageless.

— Elizabeth Coatsworth

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 friends.

— Jean Cocteau

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

— Robert Conklin

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

— Joseph Conrad

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

— Jiminy Cricket

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

— Belva Davis

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.

— James Dean

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

— William Dement

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

— Richard M. DeVos

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

— Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

— Walt Disney

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

— Umberto Eco

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

— Marian Wright Edelman

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

— Bernard Edmonds

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

— Havelock Ellis

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

— Goldman Emma

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

— Marie E. Eschenbach

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

— William Faulkner

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

— Kahlil Gibran

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

— Florence Griffith-Joyner

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

— Oscar Hammerstein

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

— Johnny Hart

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.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

— Joseph Heller

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

— Napoleon Hill

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

— Ralph Hodgson

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

— Eric Hoffer

All men of action are dreamers.

— James G. Huneker

Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

— Henrik Ibsen

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

— Eugene Ionesco

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

— Jack Kerouac

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

— Jesse Jackson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

— Thomas Jefferson

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

— Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

— John Johnson

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

— Carl Jung

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

— Henry J. Kaiser

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

— Herbert Kaufman

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

— Neil Kendall

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

— Robert F. Kennedy

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.

— Sister Corita Kent

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

— Pir Vilayat Khan

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

— Michael Korda

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.

— Thomas E. Lawrence

It may be those who do most, dream most.

— Stephen B. Leacock

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.

— Michel Leiris

I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

— Abraham Lincoln

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

— Archibald Macleish

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. [On the subject of her early aspirations]

— Elle Macpherson

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

— Og Mandino

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

— Edwin Markham

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

— Henry Miller

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

— Alfred A. Montapert

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

— Gerard De Nerval

Dreams are necessary to life.

— Anais Nin

Everything starts as somebody's day dream.

— Larry Niven

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

— Novalis

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

— Austin O'Malley

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

— Frederick Salomon Perls