“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
C.G. Jung book Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 2, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 456)
Context: An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? 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.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
“Fine Writing,” p. 308
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Theodore and Honoria, line 227.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Everything one has forgotten cries for help in the dream.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
Die Provinz des Menschen : Aufzeichnungen 1942–1972, München 1973, p. 269
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Hercule Poirot
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)