DREAMS QUOTES V

quotations about dreams & dreaming

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.

OSHO

The Book of Secrets


Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

Minima Moralia


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


Don't let your reality change your dreams, let your dreams change reality.

ANONYMOUS


Dreams make all men authors.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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


Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby


People have dreams all the time. It don't mean nothin.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing


The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,--not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Berenice"


I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

EUGÈNE IONESCO

Man With Bags


Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

GLEN COOK

Water Sleeps


My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.

JOHN STEINBECK

The Winter of Our Discontent


Dreams never deceive.

DEPECHE MODE

"Comatose"


In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

2666


The dream undreamed is fairer yet
Than these, that turn to dust.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD

"The Rhythm of Life"


Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After


Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind


There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation's Edge


Dreams take short cuts.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Lathe of Heaven


Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage