DREAMS QUOTES VII

quotations about dreams & dreaming

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ideas of Good and Evil


No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

JOSé SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda


Not everything to which we are able to compare an object or an occurrence occurs in the dream as its symbol; on the other hand, the dream does not symbolize anything we may choose, but only specific elements of the dream thought. There are limitations on both sides.

SIGMUND FREUD

"Symbolism in the Dream", A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis


Well now what's the use in dreamin'
You got better things to do
Dreams never did work for me anyway
Even when they did come true

BOB DYLAN

"I Feel a Change Comin' On"


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought


No man lives long when his dreams are dead.

GENE WOLFE

The Claw of the Conciliator


The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

CARL JUNG

Psychology of the Unconscious


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

On Dreams


Dreams are pegs for Superstition and Romance to hang their cloaks upon.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech at the University of Berlin, May 12, 1910


For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

White Nights


There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

GLEN COOK

The White Rose


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

The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man


My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet


I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters: 1892-1910


If you're smart, then your dreams evolve, too.

MARIO BATALI

Esquire, Jun. 2004


Dreams fade with morning light,
Never a morn for thee,
Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

JOYCE KILMER

"The Poet's Epitaph"


Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass, through many doors to the one door of all.

CONRAD AIKEN

The House of Dust


If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

TIM LEBBON

Face


The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them into reality.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides