Quotes About Dreams

“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

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” 
― John Lennon


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

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” 
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“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, Winnie-the-Pooh

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” 
― Neil Gaiman


“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.” 
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” 
― Walt Disney Company

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” 
― Bob Dylan

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.” 
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.” 
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” 
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” 
― Gloria Steinem

“All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the
morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous
people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come
true.” 
― D.H. Lawrence

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” 
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.” 
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.” 
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” 
― Madonna

“Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. ” 
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams” 
― Tupac Shakur

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” 
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.” 
― Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller

“Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.” 
― Henry David Thoreau