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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eleonora" (1841).
“O God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).
“We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past— Oh, never call it loving!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Woman's Shortcomings", st. 5, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 60 (Oct. 1846), p. 489; reprinted in Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850), vol. 2, p. 399
“The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He awoke—and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.”
Madonna (entertainer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling; And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith that their fathers resisted, And, scorning the dream of to-morrow, Are bringing to pass, as they may, In the world, for its joy or its sorrow, The dream that was scorned yesterday.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying.”
Alicia Witt (born 1975) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Belinda" in Belinda's Swan Song (2006)
“The ugly fallout from the American Dream has been coming down on us at a pretty consistent rate since Sitting Bull's time — and the only real difference now, with Election Day '72 only a few weeks away, is that we seem to be on the verge of ratifying the fallout and forgetting the Dream itself.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has always been my dream that the two English-speaking nations should some day be united in a great cause, and to-day my dream is realized. Together we are fighting for the greatest cause for which peoples could fight. The Anglo-Saxon race must save civilization.”
George V (1865–1936) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (9 June 1917), quoted in John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War, Volume I (1931), p. 48
“Dream that the lips once breathless Might quicken if they would; Say that the soul is deathless; Dream that the gods are good; Say March may wed September, And time divorce regret; But not that you remember, And not that I forget.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with The Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism (1999)
“Anyway, my fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here...then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States -- that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded (1931)
“Whatever the poverty of our knowledge in this respect, it is certain that the question of the sign is itself more or less, or in any event something other, than a sign of the times. To dream of reducing it to a sign of the times is to dream of violence.”
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.”
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) said by 1716 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) by J. R. Newman, p. 1832
“I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering, “What if?” I would keep putting my dream to the test — even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. If you can't live here, get back to YOUR roots and LEARN to live here!”
Alex Haley (1921–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now sometimes words can serve me well Sometimes words can go to hell For all that they do. And for every dream that took me high There's been a dream that's passed me by. I know it's so true And I can see it clear out to the end And I'll whisper to her now again Because she shared my life. For more than all the ghosts of glory She makes up the story, She's the only story Of my life.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The American Dream is not about gadgets. It’s not about the size of our gross national product. It’s not about the level of technological sophistication. The American Dream is about man. It’s about broadening the opportunities and facilitating the growth of every human being, so that each person can reach out and achieve a sense of purpose and fulfillment.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Putting the World Together: My Father Walter Reuther: The Liberal Warrior (2004), by Elisabeth Reuther Dickmeyer, p. 134
“From the pain come the dream. From the dream come the vision. From the vision come the people. From the people come the power. From this power come the change.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream how I will find relief I grieve...”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oooh, oh, how many eyes Have seen their dream? Oh, how many arms Have felt their dream? How many hearts, baby... Have felt their world stand still?”
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First to dream and then to do— isn't that the way to make a dream come true?”
Meindert DeJong (1906–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”
Mixmaster Morris (born 1965) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
“Dream wounds, dream ties Do not bind him there In a kingdom where He is unaware Of his wounds, of his snare.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was this dream we had, a dream of music, Music that rose from the opening earth like magic And shook its beauty upon us and died away? The long cold streets extend once more before us. The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fanshawe" (1828)
“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you dream of others they know it. When they dream of you, you know this.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I mentioned the caffeine. I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.”
Frances Farmer (1913–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "True Frances Farmer story remains elusive" by Rita Rose in The Indianapolis Star (23 January 1983)
“I'm working on a dream, Though trouble can feel like it's here to stay. I'm working on a dream; Our love will chase the trouble away.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goodnight, my angel Now it's time to dream. And dream how wonderful your life will be. Someday your child may cry And if you sing this lullabye Then in your heart There will always be a part of me. Someday we'll all be gone. But lullabyes go on and on... They never die. That's how you And I Will be.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down; I had the radio on, I was drivin'. The trees went by, me and Del were singin', Little runaway, I was flyin'.Yeah runnin' down a dream That never would come to me. Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads. I'm runnin' down a dream.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time, nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.”
Dan Bern (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway”
Andy Partridge (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How far do we owe loyalty to our creators’ dream? When have we earned the right to dream for ourselves?”
David Brin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To speak of Hindu fundamentalism, is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals. To be an Indian Hindu is to be part of an elusive dream all share, a dream that fills our minds with sounds, words, flavours from many sources that we cannot easily identify.”
Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their dream had left me numb and cold, But yet my spirit rose in pride, Refashioning in burnished gold The images of those who died, Or were shut in the penal cell. Here's to you, Pearse, your dream not mine, But yet the thought, for this you fell, Has turned life's water into wine.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719) said by 1719 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source