145 Dream Quotes

Dreams have long captivated the human imagination, serving as both a refuge from reality and a wellspring of inspiration. They can be mysterious, enlightening, or downright magical, offering a glimpse into our deepest desires and fears. Whether you're someone who chases after your dreams with fervor or simply enjoys the whimsical world dreams can create, there’s a universal appeal to the sentiments they evoke. In this post, we've gathered 145 of the most evocative and inspiring quotes about dreams. These carefully curated selections are sure to motivate you, spark your creativity, or simply offer a moment of introspective contemplation. Dive in and let these words guide you through the landscape of your own dreams.

1. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” - Edgar Allan Poe

2. “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

3. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” - Anais Nin

4. “Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about,Riding with the wind.” - Jimi Hendrix

5. “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” - William Butler Yeats

6. “The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.” - Helen Keller

7. “You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.” - Jorge Luis Borges

8. “The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.” - Oscar Wilde

9. “God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

13. “Put work into your dreams.” - Lesley D. Nurse

14. “There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.” - Haruki Murakami

15. “Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.” - Michelle Tea

16. “Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. ” - Haruki Murakami

17. “But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.” - Eric Wright

18. “The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

19. “Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.” - Homer

20. “I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams” - Hugh Walpole

21. “Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.” - Roman Payne

22. “He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides” - Gustave Flaubert

23. “As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.” - Sarah Dessen

24. “The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the dark the blooming moon you choose a star you follow the star it comes in your dreams you follow stars once a light bug dies you see a new star you follow the star your dreams come true.” - Demi Lovato

25. “The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.” - Carl Gustav Jung

26. “If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.” - Ewan McGregor

27. “See--two who dreamed that dream, and you were one.” - Caris Brooke

28. “But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.” - Dick Francis

29. “Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.” - P.C. Cast

30. “Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.” - Tom Hodgkinson

31. “I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.” - Nicholas Sparks

32. “Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” - Belva Davis

33. “Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.” - Joel Osteen

34. “Nana... How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...” - Ai Yazawa

35. “Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger” - Eiichiro Oda

36. “It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.” - Neil Gaiman

37. “One noći smo bili, rekao sam mu, ispred neke kuće na Florin bulevaru... Lynn je želela da hoda bosa, skinula je cipele i stavila ih u tašnu. Šetali smo tako ispred te kuće... Onda je ulicom prošla neka dečurlija sa maskama na licu. Vraćali su se sa nekog karnevala. Jedan od njih je prišao Lynn i upitao je:- Zbog čega vi hodate bosi?Zaustavili su se i napravili krug oko nas. Svi zajedno su imali godina koliko i mi.- Tako se brže hoda, odgovorila im je.- Stvarno?, rekli su svi u glas.- Da, rekla je Lynn, skineš cipele samo onda kad odlučiš kuda želiš da ideš. Kuda vi želite da idete?- U Diznilend, rekli su- Skinite onda cipele, rekla je Lynn. Bićete tamo za pet minuta.Klinci su stvarno poskidali cipele i pojurili ka Diznilendu.- Pogledaj ih, rekla mi je, žure da stignu svoj san.” - Milan Oklopdzic

38. “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

39. “Take action on your inspired dreams” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

40. “There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them” - Sally Nicholls

41. “It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.” - Philip K. Dick

42. “Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.” - Mark Rice

43. “In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.” - Lauren Oliver

44. “...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price.” - J.L. Langley

45. “A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.” - Danielle Johnson

46. “Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.” - Siri Hustvedt

47. “Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace.But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.” - Kurt Vonnegut

48. “We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.” - Beryl Markham

49. “When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.” - H.P. Lovecraft

50. “Do you really believe in destiny?" "How can I not believe in destiny, when there is no difference between my memories and my dreams at night? There's no difference between their reality. And if I dream something first, I remember it later when I am actually walking in the place or looking at the person I first dreamed of. Days later. Or years later. Destiny~ she walks with me.” - C. JoyBell C.

51. “He took the hand that wasn’t holding the bou­quet of wildflowers and stared at it, holding it so tightly that she thought he might crack her bones. Then his hold gentled. He slipped a gold ring onto her finger and lifted his gaze to hers.“I’m not a brave man; I’ll never be a hero, but I love you more than life itself, and I will until the day I die. With you by my side, I’m a better man than I’ve ever been alone. I’m scared to death that I’ll let you down, but I won’t run this time. I’ll stand firm and face the challenge and work hard to see that you never have any regrets. You told me once that you wanted to share a corner of my dream. Without you, Amelia, I have no dream. With you, I have everything I could ever dream of wanting.”Tears burned her eyes as he glanced back at the preacher. “I’m done.”-Houston to Amelia as his wedding vow.” - Lorraine Heath

52. “It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.” - C.S. Lewis

53. “I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.” - Haruki Murakami

54. “Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” - Julia Cameron

55. “Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.” - Julia Cameron

56. “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.” - Louisa May Alcott

57. “You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!” - Edith Wharton

58. “Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way ... Frantic dreams, they left me tired, and I woke grouchy to another rainy day, the sky so densely gray and the rain so thick that I couldn't that I couldn't see the opposite shore [p, 166]” - Kim Edwards

59. “By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencing—an expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lucid dreams, you see yourself or others with new eyes; your senses awaken and grasp an experience more fully than ever before; suddenly, you find your ears are open to hear with a deeper understanding.” - Jenny Davidow

60. “To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.” - Adrienne Rich

61. “Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.” - Eleanor Brown

62. “But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” - Toni Morrison

63. “You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.” - T.F. Hodge

64. “In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life. I thought of one which might have been my earliest remembered nightmare. I was probably about four years old - I don't think I'd started school yet - when I woke up screaming. The image I retained of the dream, the thing which had frightened me so, was an ugly, clown-like doll made of soft red and cream-coloured rubber. When you squeezed it, bulbous eyes popped out on stalks and the mouth opened in a gaping scream. As I recall it now, it was disturbingly ugly, not really an appropriate toy for a very young child, but it had been mine when I was younger, at least until I'd bitten its nose off, at which point it had been taken away from me. At the time when I had the dream I hadn't seen it for a year or more - I don't think I consciously remembered it until its sudden looming appearance in a dream had frightened me awake. When I told my mother about the dream, she was puzzled.'But what's scary about that? You were never scared of that doll.' I shook my head, meaning that the doll I'd owned - and barely remembered - had never scared me. 'But it was very scary,' I said, meaning that the reappearance of it in my dream had been terrifying. My mother looked at me, baffled. 'But it's not scary,' she said gently. I'm sure she was trying to make me feel better, and thought this reasonable statement would help. She was absolutely amazed when it had the opposite result, and I burst into tears.Of course she had no idea why, and of course I couldn't explain. Now I think - and of course I could be wrong - that what upset me was that I'd just realized that my mother and I were separate people. We didn't share the same dreams or nightmares. I was alone in the universe, like everybody else. In some confused way, that was what the doll had been telling me. Once it had loved me enough to let me eat its nose; now it would make me wake up screaming. ("My Death")” - Lisa Tuttle

65. “That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.” - Cecelia Ahern

66. “If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.” - Anthony Robbins

67. “Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.” - T.F. Hodge

68. “No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?” - David Gemmell

69. “Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?” - Stephen King

70. “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.” - Bram Stoker

71. “To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk. It was always that way with my grandfather. He took me places just so we could see horses, be near them. We went to the circus and the rodeo at Madison Square Garden. We watched parades down Fifth Avenue. Finding a horse, real or imagined, was like finding a dab of magic potion that enlivened us both. Sometimes I'd tell my grandfather about all the horses in my eleborate dreams. He'd lean over, smile, and assure me that, one day, I'd have one for real. And if my grandfather, my Opa, told me something was going to come true, it always did.” - Allan J. Hamilton

72. “My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.” - Stormie Omartian

73. “I must break out......start a new life...been here for years...might be getting into a rut...something a bit more exciting...more adventurous...something with more of a challenge...There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets...” - Raymond Briggs

74. “Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams, purge your thoughts of the life you knew before. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and live, as you never lived before!” - Charles Hart

75. “Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.” - Aberjhani

76. “He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.” - Brian Selznick

77. “what is love? love is you!” - Sonia Dea Octalia

78. “If man doesn't dream, he has nothing.""A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.” - Joel Goldman

79. “Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.” - Erin Morgenstern

80. “He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.” - Anne Osterlund

81. “Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream about time. I was dead, I guess, in deep black space high up among many white stars. My own consciousness had been disclosed to me, and I was happy. Then I saw far below me a long, curved band of color. As I came closer, I saw that it stretched endlessly in either direction, and I understood that I was seeing all the time of the planet where I had lived. It looked like a woman’s tweed scarf; the longer I studied any one spot, the more dots of color I saw. There was no end to the deepness and variety of the dots. At length, I started to look for my time, but, although more and more specks of color and deeper and more intricate textures appeared in the fabric, I couldn’t find my time, or any time at all that I recognized as being near my time. I couldn’t make out so much as a pyramid. Yet as I looked at the band of time, all the individual people, I understood with special clarity, were living at the very moment with great emotion, in intricate detail, in their individual times and places, and they were dying and being replaced by ever more people, one by one, like stitches in which whole worlds of feeling and energy were wrapped, in a never-ending cloth. I remembered suddenly the color and texture of our life as we knew it- these things had been utterly forgotten- and I thought as I searched for it on the limitless band, “that was a good time then, a good time to be living.”And I began to remember our time. I recalled green fields with carrots growing, one by one, in slender rows. Men and women in bright vests and scarves came and pulled the carrots out of the soil and carried them in baskets to shaded kitchens, where they scrubbed them with yellow brushes under running water…I saw may apples in forest, erupting through leaf-strewn paths. Cells on the root hairs of sycamores split and divided and apples grew striped and spotted in the fall. Mountains kept their cool caves, and squirrels raced home to their nests through sunlight and shade. I remembered the ocean, and I seemed to be in the ocean myself, swimming over orange crabs that looked like coral, or off the deep Atlantic banks where whitefish school. Or again I saw the tops of poplars, and the whole sky brushed with clouds in pallid streaks, under which wilds ducks flew, and called, one by one, and flew on. All these things I saw. Scenes grew in depth and sunlit detail before my eyes, and were replaced by ever more scenes, as I remembered the life of my time with increasing feeling. At last I saw the earth as a globe in space, and I recalled the ocean’s shape and the form of continents, saying to myself with surprise as I looked at the planet, “Yes, that’s how it was then, that part there we called ‘France’”. I was filled with the deep affection of nostalgia- and then I opened my eyes.” - Annie Dillard

82. “I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.” - Bret Easton Ellis

83. “We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".” - Scott Fotheringham

84. “The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.” - John Green

85. “Do you want to make a change?...Do you want this change? Then let's move at God`s pace.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

86. “Raah mein kaante ho, to hoSada manzilon ka armaan rakhnaPankho mein zor ho, na hoMagar hauslon mein uraan rakhna” - Jyoti Arora

87. “The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

88. “Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.” - Sigmund Freud

89. “I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes...” - JaszCab.

90. “Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost” - Hayley Williams

91. “There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.” - Melina Marchetta

92. “Big things begin with big thinking.” - Kent Healy

93. “No matter what -- Don't Quit! Follow Your Dreams...” - Sue Julsen

94. “How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is forever hearing with the utmost clarity the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrate the barrier.Honda felt that his youth had ended with the death of Kiyoaki Matsugae. At that moment something real within him, something that had burned with a vibrant brilliance, suddenly ceased to be.Now, late at night, when Honda grew weary of his legal drafts, he would pick up the dream journal that Kiyoaki had left him and turn over its pages.(...)Since then eighteen years had passed. The border between dream and memory had grown indistinct in Honda’s mind. Because the words contained in this journal, his only souvenir of his friend, had been traced there by Kiyoaki’s own hand, it had profound significance for Honda. These dreams, left like a handful of gold dust in a winnowing pan, were charged with wonder.As time went by, the dreams and the reality took on equal worth among Honda’s diverse memories. What had actually occurred was in the process of merging with what could have occurred. As reality rapidly gave way to dreams, the past seemed very much like the future.When he was young, there had been only one reality, and the future had seemed to stretch before him, swelling with immense possibilities. But as he grew older, reality seemed to take many forms, and it was the past that seemed refracted into innumerable possibilities. Since each of these was linked with its own reality, the line distinguishing dream and reality became all the more obscure. His memories were in constant flux, and had taken on the aspect of a dream.” - Yukio Mishima

95. “On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary--but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.” - Walter Farley

96. “...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...” - John Geddes

97. “You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.” - Stephen King

98. “Follow your dreams, transform your life.” - Paulo Coelho

99. “I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife” - Edgar Allan Poe

100. “Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!” - Steve Maraboli

101. “...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...” - John Geddes

102. “Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.” - Bram Stoker

103. “The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth.  But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

104. “Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.” - Rick Riordan

105. “Surrender to your dreams and let them launch your tomorrow.” - Lisa Fantino

106. “I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for” - Katie Kacvinsky

107. “Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.” - Grant Morrison

108. “Creo que todo sueño que se repite tiene algo de misterioso, pues nos hace percatarnos de que el inconsciente está cavando obsesivamente para desenterrar un objeto que se niega a salir.” - Stephen King

109. “Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins” - Else Lasker-Schüler

110. “Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.” - Robert K. Greenleaf

111. “I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.” - Kellie Elmore

112. “Bella, I can't!” - Stephenie Meyer

113. “Dreams are our only geography—our native land.” - Dejan Stojanovic

114. “The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.” - Dejan Stojanovic

115. “We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams. And while dreaming comes easy to us, we must never forget that it takes strength, dedication, and courageous action to bring that dream to life” - Steve Maraboli

116. “You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedoms swift winged angels, that fly around the world; I am confined in the bands of iron! O that I were free! O, that if I were on one of your gallant decks, under your protecting wing! Alas! Betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. O, that I could also go! Could I but swim! If I could fly! O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute! The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance. I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God! Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand. Get caught, or clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever. I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it; 100 miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God is helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave. I will take to the water. This is very bay shall yet bear me into freedom. The steamboats steered in the Northeast course from Northpoint. I will do the same; and when I get to the head of the bay, I will turn my canoe adrift, and walked straight through Delaware into Pennsylvania. When I get there, I shall not be required to have a pass; I can travel without being disturbed. Let but the first opportunity offer, and, come what will, I am off. Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke. I am not the only slave in the world. Why should I be free? I can bear as much as any of them. Besides I am but a boy, and all boys are bound to some one. It may be that my misery and slavery will only increase the happiness when I get free there is a better day coming. [62 – 63]” - Frederick Douglass

117. “Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...” - Aberjhani

118. “Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...” - Neil Gaiman

119. “Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

120. “The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.” - Elizabeth Bishop

121. “Dormir, según se sabe, es el mas secreto de nuestros actos. Le dedicamos una tercera parte de nuestra vida y no lo comprendemos. Para algunos no es otra cosa que el eclipse de nuestra vigilia; para otros, un estado más complejo, que abarca a un tiempo el ayer, el ahora y el mañana; para otros, una no interrumpida serie de sueños.” - Jorge Luis Borges

122. “Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.” - Wess Stafford

123. “If my dream comes true, Is truth then only a dream?” - Rob Bignell

124. “YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.” - Kaiden Blake

125. “A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.” - Anthony Trollopel

126. “There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.” - Mark Kurlansky

127. “And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

128. “It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.” - George R.R. Martin

129. “Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivalled those of poppy-eaters” - Jack London

130. “Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.” - Harold Klemp

131. “The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.” - Donna Lynn Hope

132. “Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.” - Steve Maraboli

133. “TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.” - Napoleon Hill

134. “At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke in a thousand different places that you'd never been.” - Rupert Thomson

135. “The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth.” - Jed McKenna

136. “Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you.” - Lisa Bu

137. “From dreams of bliss shall men awakeone day, but not to weep:the dreams remain; they only breakthe mirror of their sleep.” - John Paul Richter

138. “Be creative and daring in your dreams and the steps you take to bring them to fruition.” - Steve Maraboli

139. “Follow your heart, but don't lose your mind along the way.” - Zack W. Van

140. “In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.” - Bernard Malamud

141. “Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.” - Rachel Cohn

142. “Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer” - Cynthia Sue Larson

143. “Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?” - H.M. Forester

144. “[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!” - Tom Wolfe

145. “I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.” - Susan Donovan