Quotes about Dreams and dreaming

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GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medusa

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far,
Above the light of the morning star.
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic

It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

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

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel Barker

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” John Barrymore

“Dreaming men are haunted men.” Stephen Vincent Binet

“Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.” Erma Bombeck

“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t.” Brett Butler

“When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.” Jiminy Cricket