Sayings about Dreaming
Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Beauty doesn’t exist, men only dream it. ~ Arabian Proverb
Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams. ~ Japanese Proverb
To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who cannot sleep can still dream. ~ Ivorian Proverb
He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow. ~ Indian Proverbs
Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The king of the dreamers lies in the hospital. ~ German Proverb
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He who believes in dreams feeds on wind. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
Dogs cannot make dreams come true — people must do that. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
The caged bird dreams of clouds. ~ Japanese Proverbs
He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes. ~ Maltese Proverb
The night walks the same road as the dream. ~ Russian Proverb
He who sleeps in a silver bed has golden dreams. ~ German Proverbs
The dreams of a cat are full of mice. ~ Arabian Proverb
As the master sleeps, the servant dreams. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Even if the nightingale is in a gold cage, she still dreams of returning to the forest. ~ Armenian Proverbs
No sleep, no dream. ~ Korean Proverbs
A sleeping fox counts chicken in his dreams. ~ Russian Proverbs
Dream different dreams while on the same bed. ~ Chinese Proverb
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams. ~ Belgian Proverbs
Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams. ~ Mongolian Proverb
Quotations about Dreaming
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ~ Madonna
When I dream, I am ageless. ~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence. ~ Frederick Salomon Perls
One must have strategies to execute dreams. ~ Author Unknown
Everything starts as somebody’s daydream. ~ Larry Niven
Dreams make all men authors. ~ Edward Counsel
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. ~ William Faulkner
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~ Steven Wright
If you can dream it, you can do it. Our limits are all within yourself. ~ Brian Tracy
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they’re how He talks to you. ~ Tim Lebbon
Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest. ~ Tim Lebbon
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~ Kerouac Jack
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow. ~ James Dean
Did anyone ever have a boring dream? ~ Ralph Hodgson
Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language. ~ Gail Godwin
Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~ Diana Scharf Hunt
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big. ~ Author Unknown
Saddle your dreams before you ride ’em. ~ Mary Webb
If you can dream it and you want it bad enough, then the reality will become real. ~ Author Unknown
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self. ~ Gao Xingjian
A dream has power to poison sleep. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
If we couldn’t dream, our lives wouldn’t mean anything anymore. ~ George Kaiser
If a woman wants her dreams to come true, she must wake up. ~ Author Unknown
Choose your dreams and leave your doubts behind. ~ Author Unknown
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ~ Novalis
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. ~ Harry Edwards
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. ~ William Butler Yeats
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. ~ George Eliot
Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer that never gave up. ~ Author Unknown
Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were, and say, “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw
When you cease to dream you cease to live. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day. ~ Author Unknown
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. ~ Bernard Edmonds
In a dream you are never eighty. ~ Anne Sexton
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask. ~ X-Files
I dream, therefore I exist. ~ August J. Strindberg
A story in your head isn’t a story. It’s just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down. ~ Andy Weir
In dreams no man wears a mask. ~ Edward Counsel
And our dreams are who we are. ~ Barbara Sher
Nothing happens unless first a dream. ~ Carl Sandburg
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~ Oscar Wilde
It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time. ~ P.K. Shaw
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Don’t ever let anyone steal your dreams. ~ Dexter Yager
Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. ~ Marsha Norman
Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. ~ Author Unknown
Dreaming men are haunted men. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. ~ Robert H. Goddard
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. ~ Herbert Kaufman
The dream is not the destination but the journey. ~ Diane Sawyer
Dream your wildest dreams and you will live a wild life. ~ Author Unknown
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. ~ Author Unknown
Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell. ~ Author Unknown
We all have the same dreams. ~ Joan Didion
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~ Erich Fromm
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
Dreams are the seedlings of reality. ~ Napoleon HillL
Listen to the color of your dreams. ~ The Beatles
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ~ Marcel Proust
Dreams are necessary to life. ~ Anais Nin
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. ~ Author Unknown
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ~ Jiminy Cricket
Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? ~ Brendan Francis
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. ~ Author Unknown
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week. ~ William Dement
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. ~ Eric Hoffer
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Oversleeping will never make one’s dreams come true. ~ Author Unknown
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. ~ Oscar Wilde
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. ~ L.J. Cardinal Suenens
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may seem that those who do the most, dream the most. ~ Stephen B. Leacock
If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed. ~ Author Unknown
When we can’t dream any longer, we die. ~ Goldman Emma
Dreams fade with morning light, never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight. ~ Joyce Kilmer
I dream of painting, and then I paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
We grow by our dreams. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
It’s not what the dream is but what the dream does. ~ John H. Johnson
I cannot sing the old songs, or dream those dreams again. ~ Charlotte Barnard
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. ~ Louise Driscoll
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Dreams are free. ~ Author Unknown
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge? ~ Alice James
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~ The Talmud
A daydream is an evasion. ~ Thomas Merton
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who without a dream. ~ Harry Kemp
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. ~ Amy Hempel
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. ~ Robert Conklin
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. ~ Steven Kloves
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow. ~ Dean Marshall
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. ~ Edgar Cayce
Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear. ~ Joseph Conrad
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ~ Author Unknown
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. ~ Ruben Askew
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ~ Les Brown
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ~ Oscar Hammerstein
