Quotes About Dreams and Dreaming

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.  – The Talmund

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reason is necessary.  – Ashleigh Brilliant

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. – H.F. Hedge

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.  – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. – Bette Davis, The Lonely Life

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. – Marsha Norman

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. – William Shakespeare

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Jack Kinder

A dream has power to poison sleep. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. – William Longgood, Voices from the Earth

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William Dement

We grow great by dreams. – Unknown

The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity the one dream man! – Robert Goddard

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. – Edgar Cayce

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t have the same horizon. – Konrad Adenauer

A man must have his dreams – memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals. – Maurice Chevalier

The moment after Christmas every child thinks of his birthday. – Stephen Uys

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

Everything starts as somebody’s dream. – Larry Niven, Niven’s Laws

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.  – Stoddard King, Jr.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.  – Ann Landers

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there. – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

Dreams digest the meals that are our days. – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

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 (novelist)

Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. – Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels’ Little Instruction Book

Remembering is a dream that comes in waves. – Helga Sandbur, …Where Love Begins

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

We have all got our “good old days” tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in dreams like cats to favorite armchairs. – Brian Carter, Where the Dream Begins

Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud. – Grey Livingston

You need to have dreams. Everything starts with a dream. – Sheila Douty (Olympic Medalist, Softball)

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language. – Gail Godwin

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!  – Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and dreams of home. – Carl Burns, The Drug Shop

My motto – sans limites. – Isadora Duncan (Dancer, Writer)

Dreams are free, so free your dreams. – Astrid Alauda

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. – Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream? – Ashleigh Brilliant

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. – Erich Fromm

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. – Grey Livingston

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. – Ashleigh Brilliant

Codi: “So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can’t think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives.”

Loyd: “Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.”

– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep. – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I’ll make it, I won’t even get close. – Henry J. Kaiser (Founder, Kaiser Steel)

Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask. – Quote from X-Files

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. – Lord Alfred Tennyson

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. – Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. – Elias Canetti

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest spark in the dreaming youth – is this: Dream a great dream. – John A. Appleman

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – J.M. Power

He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything. – Proverb

Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day. – Author Unknown

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. – William Blake

Nothing happens unless first a dream. – Carl Sandburg, Slabs of the Sunburnt West

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. – The Talmud

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery