Dreams Quotes

• "What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}, Crito
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• "Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night, Sport with the ever-restless minds of men, Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain Creates its own."
  By: Thomas Love Peacock, Dreams
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• "Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistles (XIX, Hero Leandro, 195)
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• "I am weary of planning and toiling In the crowded hives of men; Heart weary of building and spoiling And spoiling and building again; And I long for the dear old river Where I dreamed my youth away; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day."
  By: John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D., Cry of the Dreamer
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• "Friday night's dreams on Saturday told Are sure to come true--be they never at old."
  By: Old Saying
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• "A thousand creeds and battle cries, A thousand warring social schemes, A thousand new moralities And twenty thousand, thousand dreams."
  By: Alfred Noyes, Forward
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• "We are near waking when we dream that we dream."
  By: Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg)
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• "How old I am! I'm eighty years! I've worked both hard and long, Yet patient as my life has been, One dearest sight I have not seen-- It almost seems a wrong; A dream I had when life was new, Alas our dreams! they come not true; I thought to see fair Carcassonne, That lovely city--Carcassone!"
  By: Gustave Nadaud, Carcassonne
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• "Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!"
  By: Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 62)
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• "One of those passing rainbow dreams, Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams Paint on the fleeting mists that roll, In trance or slumber, round the soul!"
  By: Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (st. 54)
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• "I believe it to be true that Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; but there is Art required to sort and understand them."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. III, ch. XIII)
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• "The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train."
  By: John Milton
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• "Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary."
  By: Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (act IV, sc. 3)
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• "The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "Dreams have as much influence as actions."
  By: Stephane Mallarme
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• "Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5)
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