Dream Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of dream quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“All that we see or seem. Is but a dream within a dream.”
– EDGAR ALLAN POE

“Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.”
– GAO XINGJIAN

“Dreaming men are haunted men.”
– STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.”
– WILLIAM DEMENT

“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave .A paradise for a sect.”
– JOHN KEATS

“Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.”
– HUGH HEFNER

“If we couldn’t dream, our lives wouldn’t mean anything anymore.”
– GEORG KAISER

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.”
– WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.”
– CARL JUNG

“Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.”
– THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
– LORD ALFRED TENNYSON

“Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”
– NAPOLEON HILL

“Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude … are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.”
– JONATHAN SWIFT

“In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.”
– Author OSHO

“God‘s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.”
– ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.”
– WALT DISNEY

“I dream, therefore I exist.”
– AUGUST STRINDBERG

“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and … if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”
– SIGMUND FREUD

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
– CARL JUNG

“What we experience in dreams — assuming that we experience it often — belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced “actually”: we are richer or poorer on account of it.”
– FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.”
– CORMAC MCCARTHY

“Dreams have led many astray, and those who believed in them have perished.”
– BEN SIRA

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
– EDGAR ALLAN POE

“We see but in dreams the ideal.”
– HENRI CAZALIS

“As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.”
– SIGMUND FREUD

“Dreams last as long as you let them … both good and bad.”
– MICHAEL MARSHALL

“Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren’t up to the job.”
– ALEX GARLAND

“Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.”
– AMY HEMPEL

“Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.”
– CARL JUNG

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”
– JOHN STEINBECK

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– J. R. R. TOLKIEN

“In the dream life you don’t deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.”
– JANE HIRSHFIELD

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
– ORISON SWETT MARDEN

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
– JAMES ALLEN

“If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they’re how He talks to you.”
– TIM LEBBON

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