“I've always dreamed that love would be effortless
Like a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.”

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire

“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”

Sharon M. Draper (1948) American children's writer

“For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming…”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

Siri Hustvedt (1955) novelist, essayist, poet

“Time is a dream, he thinks, a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
Where was the woman he loved? Where was his youth?
Where was the dream that burned his brain like fire?
Even a dream grows grey at last and falls.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”

Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian

“The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer