Quotations about dreams

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


Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.  ~X-Files


All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.  ~Elias Canetti


Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.  ~Author Unknown


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


A dream has power to poison sleep.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"


Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.  ~William Dement


Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.  ~Edgar Cayce


I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.  ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"


Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.  ~Henri Amiel


There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.  ~Stoddard King, Jr.


Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.  ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist


Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.  ~Evelyn Waugh


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


That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.  ~Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game


Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.  ~Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence


Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.  ~Vivian Mercer


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
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