Quotes about dreams

A collection of quotes on the topic of wise, motivational, hope, success.

Best quotes about dreams

„A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.“

— Yoko Ono Japanese artist, author, and peace activist 1933

A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

„Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are

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

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

As quoted in Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 176
Undated

„A thousand Dreams within me softly burn“

— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891

„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 stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

„Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.“

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

„You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.“

— Billy Wilder American filmmaker 1906 - 2002

„The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

„The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.“

— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945

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„A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom.“

— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966

Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Freedom, Wealth

„Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Love, Life, People, Pleasure

„What about sunrise, what about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about flowering fields, is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

Flowers, Time

„Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.“

— Liam Payne English singer and songwriter 1993

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

Star

„I dream big because I believe I am what I think I am“

— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

Thinking

„Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Reality, Powerful

„You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.“

— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)

World, Hope, Inspirational, Hope

„Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.“

— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

Time, Help, Heart, Thinking

„Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Personality

„Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.“

— Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827

Conversations (January 1804)

Music

„I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where they won´t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the contente of their character.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Variant: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Children, Color

„Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.“

— Sathya Sai Baba Indian guru 1926 - 2011

Love, Life, Game, Singing

„During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Life

„I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
But when I wake up, I see
You with me

And you say
As long as I'm here
No one can hurt you
Don't wanna lie here
But you can learn to
If I could change the way that you see yourself
You wouldn't wonder why you hear
"They don't deserve you"“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

"everything i wanted"
Singles (2017 - )

Hurt, Learning, Lie, Way

„I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.“

— Osamu Dazai, book No Longer Human

The Third Notebook:Part Two
No Longer Human

Failure, Suffering, Chance, Summer

„You must allow your free-will to roam as freely as you want and delve deep into your dreams. Never limit yourself nor live according to the appetite of someone else.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.“

— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947

Pleasure, Waiting, Success

„Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.“

— Kālidāsa Classical Sanskrit writer

Source: The complete works of Kalidasa

Hope, Happiness, Hope, Business

„Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.“

— Richelle Mead American writer 1976

Source: Succubus Blues

„When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.“

— Patañjali ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises -200 - -150 BC

As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html
The Mahābhāṣya

World, Personality

„How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.“

— Bram Stoker, book Dracula

Source: Dracula

People, Fear, Sleep

„Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still…
Iris, blue each spring“

— Ome Shushiki

Source: Japanese Haiku

Hope, Spring, Dead

„You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.“

— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love, Reality, For Wife, love

„Whatever situation you are facing, don’t let it overwhelm you. Stay focused because there is something far more important than that situation – your dream and your goals in life.“

— T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader 1963

Life

„The Rock: I am married to savannah mullins; I need to take this moment, and I need to tell you something as Dwayne. It's been a long time since I've been back. Seven years to be exact; but I want to take this moment, in the middle of this ring, to tell you why I'm back. It's not because of the money. It's not to promote a movie. I am back in the middle of this ring because of you. When I left - when I left the WWE seven years ago I dreamed big, and you guys dreamed big with me. You helped me accomplish my goals - accomplish my dreams - because you never. left. my side; and I wanna take this moment to tell you all here - you're live here - millions watching around the world. I wanna tell you thank you. I love you, and it is because of you that I am back in this ring, and it is because of you - and I give you my word - I am never ever going away. Simply put, ladies and gentlemen, The Rock is back!“

— Dwayne Johnson American actor and professional wrestler 1972

The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.

Love, Money, World, Guy

„I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death“

— Nas American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973

N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)

Death, Sleep

„I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest
It might have been a nightmare
To anyone who might care“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

"everything i wanted" · First live performance, Mexico City (12 December 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdG91aCsPU
Singles (2017 - )

Thinking

„Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.“

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832

Attributed to Goethe by popular British novelist Marie Corelli in her essay "The Spirit of Work" as published in The Queen's Christmas carol : an anthology of poems, stories, essays, drawings and music / by British authors, artists and composers in 1905 by The Daily Mail of London.
Attributed to Goethe by William Hutchinson Murray, in his book The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951), this has been shown to be a misattribution at "German Myth 12: The Famous 'Goethe' Quotation", Answer.com http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm and "Popular Quotes: Commitment", Goethe Society of North America http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.html
Misattributed
Variant: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Courageous

„Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams
into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how
you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.“

— Anthony Robbins Author, actor, professional speaker 1960

Love, Life, People, Fear

„A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.-Colin Powell“

— Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

Reality, Motivational, Wise, Life

„I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.“

— A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Thinking, Time, For Wife, Relationship

„I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Life, Death, Help

„Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.“

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

Heart

„I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!“

— Tove Jansson Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914 - 2001

Source: Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1

Peace

„I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which meet and part,
and I have two languages.
I forget which of them I dream in.“

— Mahmoud Darwich Palestinian writer 1941 - 2008

Parting, Forgetting

„in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me“

— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

Time, Forgetting

„Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.“

— Murasaki Shikibu, book The Tale of Genji

Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1: Kiritsubo

„Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Hate, Fate, Children, Truth

„Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

Life, Fight

„I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?“

— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

Faith

„Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that
I do not see any dreams!“

— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967

<span class="plainlinks"> May I Not See Dreams http://learningandcreativity.com/may-i-not-see-dreams-poetry-month-special/</span>
From Poetry

Love

„Tell the your emperor; Where my power has reached, Emperor's dreams can not reach!“

— Mehmed II Ottoman sultan 1432 - 1481

While Constantinople was besieged, Mehmed's response to the Byzantine ambassador

„Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think.“

— John Wesley Christian theologian 1703 - 1791

Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"
Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)
Context: Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.

Men, God, Way, Thinking

„We had a beautiful dream and that was all.“

— Marie Antoinette last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution 1755 - 1793

The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.
Marie Antoinette to the Chevalier Jarjayes on his persuading her to escape alone from the Tower; Lettres, II. p. 433; also quoted in Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001) by Antonia Fraser, ISBN 0307277747.

Beauty

„When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.“

— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935

People, Feeling, Intelligence, Thinking

„If you're happy in a dream, does that count?“

— Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Happiness

„If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.“

— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

„What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?“

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

Source: The Complete Poems

Beauty, Flowers, Sleep

„Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?“

— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC

Sleep, Tree, Flying

„Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.“

— Richelle Mead American writer 1976

Reading

„Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.“

— Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Law, Nature, Learning, Beauty

„Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.“

— Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967

Source: The Collected Poems

Life, Bird, Flying

„When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.“

— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

Variant: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Learning, For women, Leadership

„Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Happiness

„The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.“

— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019

„Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.“

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940

Source: P.S. I Love You

Disappointment, Motivational, Courageous, Success

„If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.“

— René Magritte Belgian surrealist artist 1898 - 1967

Life

„Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.“

— Les Brown American politician 1945

Variant: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.

Fear, Motivational, Success, Inspirational

„When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.“

— Helder Camara Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1909 - 1999

Reality

„When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

„I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.“

— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

Sleep, Forgetting

„They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.“

— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954

Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
Variant: I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Reality, Painting

„Being an actress was kind of like when you’re a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn’t think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am!“

— Katie McGrath Irish actress 1983

She's magic https://web.archive.org/web/20090408064322/http://sundayheraldsalon.com/salon/2008/10/shes_magic.html (April 8, 2009)

Thinking, Reality

„In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

Hate, World, Hope, Despair

„I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.“

— Richard Aldington English writer and poet 1892 - 1962

From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929

„Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.“

— Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902 - 1994

Utopia and Violence (1947)

Men, World, Beauty, Suffering

„I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.“

— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

I Will Always Love You from the album Jolene
Song lyrics

Love, Life, Hope, Joy

„It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,
shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;
and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awoke
or go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.“

— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría,
cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la tierra:
y, en la insurrección de la luz, despertar con los que despertaron
o seguir en el sueño alcanzando la otra orilla del mar que no tiene otra orilla.
La Barcarola Termina (The Watersong Ends) (1967), trans. Anthony Kerrigan in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0-395-54418-1] (p. 500).

Love, Star, Light, Time

„Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.“

— Randy Pausch, book The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture (2008)

Fear

„Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.“

— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

Sun, Life, Time

„I dream that one day
we will look at each other
in the same way we look at the sun,
and we will touch each other
like the sun on earth,
and the blessings of light
will flow into our hearts.“

— Alexis Karpouzos 1967

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2

Sun, Light, Heart, Way

„He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.“

— Virginia Woolf, book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

Life

„We are not utopians, we do not indulge in "dreams" of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination; these anarchist dreams… serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until human nature has changed. No, we want the with human nature as it is now, with human nature that cannot dispense with subordination, control and "managers."… The united workers themselves… will hire their own technicians, managers and bookkeepers, and pay them all, as, indeed, every state official, ordinary workmen's wages.“

— Vladimir Lenin, book The State and Revolution

§ 3.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966), pp. 307-308
Source: The State and Revolution (1917)

Nature, Change

„we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.“

— Charles Bukowski, book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

„My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.“

— Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946

Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

Hope, Fashion, Effort, Study

„It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.“

— Terry Brooks American writer 1944

Source: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Life, Hope

„If you will it, it is no dream.“

— Theodor Herzl Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer 1860 - 1904

„She is so naked and singular
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.

(For My Lover, Returning To His Wife)“

— Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

Source: Selected Poems

Lovers

„But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.“

— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1499/
Variant: I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Context: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

„One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.“

— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

Life, Flowers, Light, Loss

„People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.“

— Karen Blixen, book Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa (1937)
Context: People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. Great landscapes create themselves, long splendid views, rich and delicate colours, roads, houses, which he has never seen or heard of...

People, World, Sleep, Freedom

„Our dreams have been doctored. We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter..“

— Arundhati Roy Indian novelist, essayist 1961

Sadness, Joy, Sea, Happiness