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“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Dreams are never concerned with trivialities; we do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“If we shadows have offended, think but this,—and all is mended,— that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“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, The Fault in Our Stars

“Even sleepers and dreamers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.” Heraclitus, On Nature

“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.'” Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“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, Intentions

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“But America is too great for small dreams.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“The biggest thrill you can ever achieve is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“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

“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, Dracula

“it's better to look at the sky than live there.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“action . . . is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you ya dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of...” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.” Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I didn’t have any of these dreams or thoughts but I was going to acquire them.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.” Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut...” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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imagination reality life fear pain ambition truth success mind knowledge work contentment thoughts eye unconscious achievement love failure death God

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Sigmund Freud (5)
William Shakespeare (4)
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Bram Stoker (3)
Paulo Coelho (2)
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Charles Dickens (2)
Emily Brontë (1)
Leonardo da Vinci (1)
Haruki Murakami (1)
John Steinbeck (1)
J. K. Rowling (1)
Heraclitus (1)
Carl Sagan (1)
John Green (1)
John Locke (1)
Virginia Woolf (1)
Bob Dylan (1)
Marilyn Monroe (1)

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1)
The Interpretation of Dreams (5)
Dracula (3)
The Alchemist (2)
Walden (2)
Hamlet (2)
Intentions (2)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (2)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1)
The Tempest (1)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1)
Wuthering Heights (1)
A Game of Thrones (1)
State of the Union Address (1)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1)
The Fault in Our Stars (1)
On Nature (1)
Cosmos (1)
My Story (1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1)