Quotes on Dreams

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, July 26, 2004

Dreaming men are haunted men.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, John Brown's Body

If I dream I have you, I have you,

For, all our joys are but fantastical.

JOHN DONNE, The Dream

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave

A paradise for a sect.

JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion

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, AskMen.com interview

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medusa

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Father, O father! what do we here

In this land of unbelief and fear?

The Land of Dreams is better far,

Above the light of the morning star.

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams

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, Man and His Symbols