Dream quotes

Anonymous

To dream of the person you would like to be  is to waste the person you are.

Bunyan John 1628-1888

The Pilgrim's Progress

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

Chaucer Geoffrey c. 1343-1400

The Romaunt of the Rose

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne
And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

Dowson Ernest 1867-1900

„Vitae Summa Brevis"

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

Foster Stephen Collins 1826-1864

„Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"

I dream of jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapour, on the soft summer air.

Froude James A. 1818-1894

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

Iolanthe

For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a  steamer from Harwich - Which is something between a large bathing  machine and a very small second class carriage.

Goya (Francisco Joseé de Goya y Lucientes)

Los Caprichos

The dream of reason produces monsters.

Hodgson Ralph 1871-1962

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Keats John 1795-1821

„Hyperion: A Fragment"

As when, upon a trancèd summer-night,
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmèd by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.

Keats John 1795-1821

„Ode to a Nightingale"

Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: do I wake or sleep?

King Martin Luther 1929-1968

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together  at the table of brotherhood ...
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936

Rewards and Fairies „If-"

If you dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same ...

Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-

„Eleanor Rigby"

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Miller Arthur 1915-

Death of a Salesman „Requiem"

A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Moltke Helmuth Von 1800-1891

Letter to Dr. J.K.Bluntschli

Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a  pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement of the world ... Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep.

Moore Thomas 1779-1852

„Love's Young Dream"

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

 

O'neill Eugene 1888-1953

Marco Millions

Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature.

O'shaugnessy Arthur 1844-1881

„Ode"

For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Poe Edgar Allan 1809-1849

„A Dream within a Dream"

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Queneau Raymond 1903-1976

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Rostand Edmond 1868-1918

La Princesse Lointaine

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

Santayana George 1863-1952

Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

Sexton Anne 1928-1974

„Old"

In a dream you are never eighty.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Hamlet

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Winter's Tale
This dream of mine,
Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch further,
But milk my ewes and weep.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 87

Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Adonais

He hath awakened from the dream of life -
„Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings.

Springsteen Bruce 1949-

„The River"

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, Or is it something worse?

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

„Tthonus"

Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East.

Van Gogh Vincent 1853-1890

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

Wordsworth William 1770-1850

„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

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