"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"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

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
— George Carlin

"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true."
— Walt Disney's Cinderella

"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

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Hope is a waking dream."
— Aristotle

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
— Henry David Thoreau

"While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream."
— Isaac Asimov

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
— Madonna

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat)

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."
— Werner Herzog

"In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you."
— Marsha Norman

"Free at last, Free at last, Thank go almighty we are free at last."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky. "
— R. Kelly

"When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more."
— C.S. Lewis

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

"We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life."
— Hélène Cixous

"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
— Oscar Wilde

"When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you."
— John Darnielle

"Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a 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 being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams..."
— Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

"The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."
— Carl Gustav Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
— John Updike

"Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms."
— Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space)

"...in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace."
— Cormac McCarthy (Cities of the Plain)

"Dreams are manifestations of identities."
— Kathy Acker (Pussy, King of the Pirates)

"...she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.""
— Stephen Cosgrove (The Dream Tree)