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“The question posed most often is: How do you know you aren't dreaming, that what you experience is nothing more than a vivid dream or a hallucination of some sort?”
Robert Monroe (1915–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Longing for whatever shadow I longed for Tokyo even on sleety days, I thought, but leaning there on a wall in backstreets, and cold, what dream is this man, a beggar, dreaming?”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had my dream Olympic skate [in the team event] and to me, I’ve been dreaming of that moment for such a long time, it made me feel like a superhero and superheroes save the day. And I wish I had said that we were all superheroes during the team event.”
Mirai Nagasu (born 1993) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mirai Nagasu Opens Up About Her Final Olympic Performance and Her Controversial Comments After in People (February 24, 2018)
“Don’t be afraid to dream, and don’t stop at just dreaming, do everything you can to make it a reality.”
Ini Dima-Okojie (born 1990) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her advice to young people (2018)
“To every little boy and girl out there dreaming, dream tall. Never let anyone stop you.”
Funke Adesiyan (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Excuse me for living,/But, since I am living,/Given inches, I take yards,/Taking yards, dream of miles/And a landscape, unbounded/And vast in abandon./And you dreaming the same.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of us were dreaming to play for this club because we didn't have a lot of Nigerians playing abroad. We were not in touch with the Premier League, for example. Our dream was just limited to playing for that one big team.”
Jay-Jay Okocha (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everywhere where fashion is, I want to be there, and I see myself making it. I'm not doubting on that one. I dream big and I'm dreaming in colour”
Lilly Alfonso wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a director, you have the job of dreaming up the movie, and then you have to get everyone else in the movie – hundreds of people – to have that same dream, too.”
Greta Gerwig (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can never say it’s too early to dream,The earlier you start dreaming, the earlier you are inclined to start working hard.”
Julia Chibhabha (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no harm in dreaming. After all, the National Games at one point of time was also a dream. We have made it happen. We can all raise a toast for a job accomplished.”
Bhogeswar Baruah (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever more exclusively of water. Swimming and dreaming were becoming indistinguishable. I grew convinced that following water, flowing with it, would be a way of getting under the skin of things, of learning something new.”
Roger Deakin (1943–2006) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted by in: (quote from 1999 book Waterlog by Roger Deakin)
“Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.”
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams comes true.”
Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did you figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The touch, sure and light [is] fixing something of the passing moment.. ..memory is the true, imperishable life, that which has sunk without trace and been forgotten was not worth experiencing, the sweet hours, and the great and dread, are immutable. Dreams are life itself – and dreams are more true than reality; in them we behave as our true selves – if we have a soul it is there.”
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from her letter to her friend Mallarmé 1882; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 160
“Follow your heart, follow your dreams. If writing is your passion, put everything you have into it. Let that passion, that joy, lead you. In the end it might not lead you to exactly the place you thought you were heading...but it will absolutely lead you someplace wonderful. And don’t let the Nay-Sayers, the Practical People, stop you or wear you down. Follow your dreams...and you can’t go wrong.”
J. M. DeMatteis (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sleeping is a way of dying or at least of dying to reality, better still it is the death of reality, but reality dies in love as in dreams. The life of man is entirely occupied by the bloody osmosis of dreams and love.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is not the Vision He? tho’ He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Higher Pantheism", st. 2 (1867)
“Now, I have used the words they and their in speaking of these heroes. I could say you and your, because I'm addressing the heroes of whom I speak -- you, the citizens of this blessed land. Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the goals of this administration, so help me God.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On growing up in a small town, as quoted in Who was Ronald Reagan? (2004) by Joyce Milton, p. 9
“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee, as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those, that thou sawest in thy sleep.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.”
Jesse Jackson (1941–2026) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Independent (9 June 1988)
“And here at length is somewhat of revenge: For man's most golden dreams of pride and power Are vain as any woman-dreams of love; Both end in weary brow and wither'd heart, And the grave closes over those whose hopes Have lain there long before.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address on receiving the Nehru Award (10 January 1977), published in Virginia Woolf Quarterly (1977), Vol. 3, p. 11; also quoted in The Signs of Language Revisited : An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima…
“I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang (page 254)
“Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.”
Morton Feldman (1926–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sound Noise Varese Boulez, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner. A&C Black, 2004. p. 16.
“Art is an act of the soul, not of the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams — their visions, really — we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We invoke the Great Creator when we invoke our own creativity, and that creative force has the power to alter lives, fulfill destinies, and answer our dreams.”
Julia Cameron (born 1948) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001), "Invocation
“It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.”
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies … Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.”
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After having dreams about physical terms, which he initially dismissed as a "misuse of physics terminology" by the unconscious, in a letter to Carl Jung (16 June 1948)
“I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them — because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Experience" (1913) as translated by L. Spencer and S. Jost, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 1 (1996), pp. 4-5
“What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Looking down on empty streets, all she can see Are the dreams all made solid Are the dreams all made real.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Day after day gasped away, slowly seep hours when fettered or immured, only at times does imagination scale the palisades that the spirit of chaos and confusion, the spirit of reactionary bombast, has set up around us - dreams, dreams of endless, destructive hate! Mists of hate, beclouding the burning brain!”
George Grosz (1893–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Otto Schmalhausen, 4 April, 1917 (Briefe, p. 49); as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County M…
“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thoughts of such magnificent vigor began to think their own thoughts-and their thoughts thought thoughts. As if in divine astonishment and surprise, All That Is began to listen, and began to respond to these generations of thoughts and dreams, for the thoughts and dreams related to each other also.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor. I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm. Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground. Blow away the dreams that tear you apart, Blow away the dreams that break your heart. Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.”
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is our dreams that point the way to freedom. Those dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us the strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.”
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bursting at the Seams : A Wealth of Wit and Wisdom by, for, and about Women (2004) edited by Killy John and Alie Stibbe
“Only in clouds and dreams I felt those souls In the abyss, each fire hid in its clod, From which in clouds and dreams the spirit rolls Into the vast of God.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source