“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: Weaveworld
“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me.”
Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018) Irish singer
"Dreams"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Original: Mes yeux se ferment pour voir sans comprendre le rêve dans l'espace infini qui fuit devant moi.
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 184-185: Letter to André Fontainas, March 1899
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe book A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Context: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
“I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)