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Famous Dream Quotes

Quotes, Sayings and Quotations Inspired by Dreaming

The dream world has inspired authors, philosophers and politicians through the ages. Here are just a few of my favourite famous quotes about dreams:

The Sleep of Reason brings forth monsters
- Goya
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
- Edgar Allen Poe
True literature can exist only where it is created not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics
- Zevgeny Zamyatin
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth.
- Freidrich Kekule
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Sigmund Freud
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't dream it - be it
- Richard O'Brien, Rocky Horror Show
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
And we end our quotes about dreams with a line from the Master himself:
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper


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