20 Inspirational Quotes About Dreams

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung

“All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. “ - Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams are real while they last -- can we say more of life? - Havelock Ellis

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” - The Talmud

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.” - Marsha Norman

“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.” - Michel de Montaigne

“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.” - H.F. Hedge

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” - Plutarch

“Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” - Inception

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” - Sigmund Freud

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” - Virginia Woolf

“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care

The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast.” 

- William Shakespeare

“For a dreamer, night's the only time of day.” - Newsies

“I'll take the dream I had last night,

And put it in my freezer,

So someday long and far away,

When I'm an old grey greezer,

I'll take it out and thaw it out,

This lovely dream I've frozen,

And boil it up and sit me down

And dip my old cold toes in.”

- Shel Silverstein

“Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.” - Gail Godwin

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” - Elias Canetti

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.” - Edgar Cayce

“We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.” 

- William Shakespeare

“Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.” - Gao Xingjian

“For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.” - Aristotle