Dream Quotes

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

It’s a mistake to think that dreams can come true without having to offer anything in exchange.

Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream.

When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists, for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

To me dreams are a part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can.[Für mich sind Träume Natur, der keine Täuschungsabsicht innewohnt, sondern die etwas aussagt.]

To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only at night.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.