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 | The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 13 likes |
 | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 11 likes |
 | I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 8 likes |
 | For my part, I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 8 likes |
 | An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 7 likes |
 | I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 7 likes |
 | Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 6 likes |
 | Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 6 likes |
| Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
| I dream my painting and I paint my dream. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 5 likes |
 | A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes |
 | A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ The Tempest 4 likes |
 | The dream is the aquarium of the night. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | Nothing happens unless first we dream. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 4 likes |
 | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes |
 | Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 4 likes |
 | Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. — Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet 4 likes |
 | Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst 4 likes |
 | You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 4 likes |
 | You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | When I am asleep, I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
| Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | I dream with my eyes open. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 3 likes |
 | Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
| Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 3 likes |
| If you can dream it, you can achieve it. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
 | The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
| I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare. |
 | We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. |
 | It’s bigamy to love and dream at the same time. |
 | May what is promised to you in a dream come in a dream! |
 | An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. |
 | Lie during the day and dream at night, there is the man. |
 | The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream? |
 | God, this dump of our dreams. |
 | He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream. |
 | The future is a convenient place for dreams. |
| To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. |
 | Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. |
 | Learn from your dreams what you lack. |
 | Dreams are life without memory |
 | I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams. |
| I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. |
 | Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. |
 | The most indecent thing a man would show: his dreams. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | Dreams? If only they had been! But I don’t need dreams, Doctor, that’s why I hardly have them – because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight! |
 | It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. |
 | The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | It has been said of dreams that they are a “controlled psychosis,” or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. |
| When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. |
 | You are a dream; I hope I never meet you. |
 | The dream is the proof that to imagine, to dream of what has not existed, is one of the deepest needs of man. |
 | Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
 | I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. |
| We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. |
 | Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
Quotes in Verse
| Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 5 likes |
 | I had a dream, which was not all a dream. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams. |
 | Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess what. — Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright (waking up) |
| Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvellous error! – That it was God I had here inside my heart. |
Funny Quotes
 | That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 19 likes |
 | When they said to you at graduation “follow your dreams,” did anybody say you had to wake up first? — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | If you don't get a good night kiss, you get Kafka dreams. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Dreams come from Zeus. Και γαρ τ' όναρ εκ Διός εστιν. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad I 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | “Heavy. What is it?” “The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.” — from the film The Maltese Falcon (1941) 7 likes |
