The best dream quotes about life, love and the future (2023)

Are you looking for some thought provoking dream quotes about your waking life?

The study of dreams has long fascinated many.

People often wake up confused about what they dreamed about.

Some want to search for the meaning of what was going through his mind.

As bizarre as some of the images and themes may seem,Dreams are our unconscious way of workingfor things that worry us or that worry us while we sleep.

Dreams have been studied by so many people for years.

Many books have been written explaining the symbolism contained in them.

While there are some discrepancies or multiple meanings for some of the dream symbols, most remain consistent.

Understanding them can help an individual see the big picture and find greater meaning in their dreams.

With that in mind, here are some dream quotes, dream sayings, and dream sayings from some of the great - and amazing - minds of our time.

Read them to learn more about your dreams and the nature of your reality.

We also have a collection ofinspirational good night quotesto put it in the right place before going to sleep.

Make sure you read this too.

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Dream quotes to help you better interpret your dreams and waking life

1. "Nobody ever achieved greatness without dreams." -Roy T. Bennet

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

3. "Dreams are illustrations... of the book your soul is writing about you." -Marsha Norman

4. "A disheveled mind makes a restless pillow." -Charlotte Bronte

5. "You never live to be eighty in a dream." -Anne Kuester

6. "Sleep is not an insignificant art: for its sake one must remain awake all day." -Friedrich Nietzsche

7. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

8. "Dreams are often deepest when they seem craziest." -Sigmund Freud

9. "Yet even in our idleness, in our dreams, the submerged truth sometimes comes to the surface." -Virginia Woolf

10. "Following your dream is hard. It's a tragedy not to."– Ralf Marston

11. "All things one has forgotten cry out for help in the dream." -Elias Canetti

12. "Because many times when someone is sleeping there is something in the consciousness that explains that what then presents itself is just a dream." -Aristotle

13. "Dreams are more real than reality itself, they are closer to the self." -Gao Xingjian

14. "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." -Sigmund Freud

15. "Dreams are true while they last, and don't we live in dreams?"Alfred Lord Tennyson

16. “During sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But even in waking life we ​​continue to dream below the threshold of consciousness, especially when we are under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.” –Karl Jung

17. "An uninterpreted dream is like an unread letter."-There Talmud

18. "I am used to sleeping and imagining in my dreams the same things that madmen imagine when they are awake." -René Descartes

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Dream quotes about the nature of our reality

19. "Your world is not real!"-start, movie 2010

20. "Every dream anyone has is theirs alone and they can never share it. And they can never remember it either. Not really or exactly. Not how it was. Our memories and vocabulary are not enough.” –Alex wreath

21. "Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-liberation from human prison." -Henrique Amiel

22. “Insomnia is a powerful feeder. It will feed on all kinds of thinking, including thinking about non-thinking.” –Clifton Fadiman

23. "Sleep... Ah! How I hate these little pieces of death."—Unknown author

24. "Huge and powerful forms, not living like living people, moved slowly through the mind during the day and disturbed my dreams." -William Wordsworth

25. "Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in the language of the day." -Gail Godwin

26. "The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment when you are between sleep and waking, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when just for a moment you feel with all your soul that the dream is reality , and it really happened."-James Arthur Baldwin

27. "Remember the old story about the rather sophisticated young man who chose sexual dreams over visiting brothels because that way he met a much nicer breed of girl."-Vivian Mercer

28. "I think we dream so we don't spend so much time apart. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night." -Bill Watterson

29. "There's a long, long trail that winds its way to the land of my dreams." -Stoddard King Jr.

30. “One can only write, think and pray for others; Dreams are all self-centered."-Evelyn Wagh

31. “Our dreams bother us because they refuse to yield to our most loving ideas of ourselves. The more you look, the more they seem to insist on a defiant statement: You must truly live. At the time. And always. Few forces in life present with an equal sense of inevitability the simple facts of who we are and the demands of what we can become.”—Marc-Ian Barasch

32. “Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was really off." –Beginning, 2010 film

33. "In dreams, we enter a world of our own." -Steven Kloves

34. "I'll take the dream I had last night and put it in my freezer, then someday, far, far away, when I'm an old gray Greezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, such beautiful dreams, I am frozen, and boil, and sit and dip my cold old fingers.”—Shel Silverstein

35. "Even the most beautiful dream bears like a stain its difference from reality, the awareness that what it bestows is mere illusion." -Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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36. "The best reason to have dreams is that in dreams no reason is needed."-Ashleigh Brillant

37. "I have always been surprised to see how much more credence and importance is given to waking events by a common observer than to those that occur in dreams... Man... is above all the pawn of his memory." -second briton

38. “A dream is a microscope through which we look at events hidden in our soul.” –Erich Fromm

39. "Yet last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win you to sleep, by any dissimulation: So let me not take this night away. Without you, what is tomorrow's wealth? Come, blessed frontier between day and day, dear mother of fresh thoughts and cheerful health!'William Wordsworth

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40. "Not only are we less sane and less decent in our dreams... we are also smarter, wiser and more perceptive when we are asleep than when we are awake."Erich Fromm

41. "To a dreamer, night is the only time of day." -News

42. "Sleep weaving the broken cord of sadness, Every day's death, the bath of painful work, balm for the wounded spirit, the second course of great nature, main food in the feast of life."Willian Shakespeare, Macbeth

43. “Those who compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleep awake and wake up.” –Michel de Montaigne

44. “The sailor does not control the sea, nor the lucid dreamer control the dream. Like a sailor, lucid dreamers manipulate or direct themselves to the greatest extent in the dream; however, they do not control it. Lucid dreaming appears to be a co-created experience.” –Robert Wagner

45. “Now pause to ask yourself this question: 'Am I dreaming or am I awake?’ Be serious, really try to answer the question as best you can, and be prepared to justify your answer.Stephen LaBerge

46. ​​​“A dream does not come true through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” –Colin Powell

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47. “A dream you dream alone is just a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” –Yoko Ono

48. "Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, testifying to all men a creative power which, if available awake, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare."-H. F. Hedge

49. "There's only one thing that makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure." -Paulo Coelho

50. "Once you start chasing a dream, your waking life and everything makes sense." -Barbara Scher

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Dream quotes to lift your spirits

51. "When you stop dreaming, you stop living." -Malcolm Forbes

52. "So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then seem unlikely, and then, if we work at will, they soon become inevitable."Christopher Reve

53. "You know you're in love when you can't sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."Dr. Seuss

54. "I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride a bike. I can dream."Bill Walton

55. “Without leaps of imagination or dreams, we lose the thrill of possibility. After all, dreaming is a form of planning.” ―glory stein

56. "Dreams are real while they last - can we say more about life?" -Sexologist and writer Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

57. "Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things that keep you from sleeping." -Cristiano Ronaldo

58. "Dreams are just thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day." ~Unknown author

59. "Dreams are foreign lands within the confines of our own hearts." ~Terri-Zitate

60. "All can escape to sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher is there like the poet."~Emil M. Cioran

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Thought-provoking dream quotes

61. “Don't go where the path may lead. Instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." -J.R.R. Tolkien

63. “Never limit yourself because of the limited imagination of others; Never limit others based on your own limited imagination.”–Mae Jemison More

64. "I like the dreams of the future more than the history of the past."Thomas Jefferson

65. "Stay away from people who try to downplay your ambitions. Little people always do that, but big ones make you feel like you can grow too.”–Mark Twain
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66. "A man must dream big to act big, and dreaming is cultivated in obscurity." –Jean Genet

67. “Every big dream starts with a dreamer. Always remember that you have strength, patience and passion within you to reach for the stars and change the world.”–Harriet Tubmann

68. "When you give up on your dreams, what's left?" -Jim Carrey

69. "Have no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

70. "Yesterday's dreams are often tomorrow's realities."Bruce Lee

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Other motivational dream quotes

71. "No matter how much your heart aches, if you keep believing, the dreams you wish for will come true." –Walt Disney Company

72. "Sometimes dreams you didn't even know had come true." -Alice Sebold

73. “Dreams don't work if you don't take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” –Roy T. Bennet

74. "Let your dreams see the light of day." -Bernard Kelvin Clive

75. “Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is yours and unique.” –Roy T. Bennet

76. “Dreams only have one owner. That's why dreamers are lonely.” –Wilhelm Faulkner

77. "Dreaming allows each of us to go silently and safely insane every night of our lives."Wilhelm Dement

78. “All humans are also dream beings. Dreaming connects all humanity.” –Jack Kerouac

79. "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." -Paulo Waleri

80. "Know what you want to do, keep thinking and do what must be done each day, and each sunset will bring you a little closer to the goal." -Elbert Hubbard

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More dream quotes and sayings

81. "Nothing happens except a dream first." -Karl Sandburg

82. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the person with all the facts.”–Albert Einstein

83. “Your vision only becomes clear when you look into your heart. Anyone who looks outside is dreaming. Whoever looks inside awakens.”–Karl Jung

84. “Dare to live the life you dreamed of. Go ahead and make your dreams come true.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “Never give up on a dream just for the time it will takecatch upthis. Time flies anyway.”– Conde Nightingale

86. "Dreams are the seedlings of reality."—James Allen

87. "Maybe those who do the most dream the most."–Stephen Butler Leacock

88. "What is dreamed can never be lost, can never remain un-dreamed."–Neil Gaiman

89. “You're going to come across something you can't stop thinking about, something more important than anything else. Make it the center of your life.”– Maximo Lagace

Dream Quotes To Satisfy Our Heart's Desires

90. "What sets us apart are our dreams and what we do to achieve them." —Josef Epstein

91. "A goal is a dream with a deadline." —Dan Müller

92. "The key to achieving a dream is to focus not on success but on meaning." —Oprah Winfrey

93. "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're sleeping."Walt Disney

94. "It's the opportunity to fulfill a dream that makes life interesting." —Paulo Coelho

95. "Dreams are the touchstones of our character."Henry David Thoreau

96. "Those who give up their dreams hurt their own hearts and cannot end up enjoying a deep sense of fulfillment."Daisaku Ikeda

97. "If you have a dream, give it a chance."Richard DeVos

98. "It's hard to say what's impossible, because yesterday's dream is today's hope and tomorrow's reality."Robert H. Goddard

99. "The past is a ghost, the future is a dream and all we have is now." —Bill Cosby

Dream quotes encouraging you to pursue your goals

100. “A dream is your creative vision for your future life. You need to step out of your current comfort zone and embrace the unknown and the unknown.” —Dennis Waitley

101. "The heart is the epicenter of everything, because it is from it that dreams, hopes and ambitions are born."Cess Gichuhi

102. "Money is certainly one of the ways we can turn our dreams into the reality we live."Toni Robbins

103. “You need to start feeling gratitude as you set your intentions. Intentions are the starting point for the realization of your dreams.” —Brenda Nathan

104. "Intrinsic motivation comes from within you and is driven by your own dreams, aspirations, desires, and wants." —Johanna Just

105. "Once you know yourself, what you like, what you love, what you don't like, what your dreams are and are honest about your flaws, you can accept yourself for who you are."SW Robertson

106. "Your dream of prosperity will grow and mature as you grow in spiritual maturity." —Mary Manin Morrissey

107. “Life is made up of positive and negative choices that you have to make. A dream is just a dream, but it's up to you to make it come true." —lord wish

108. “No matter how meticulously you plan the path to your dream, life will get in the way. There will be many delays, setbacks and detours. They are all part of the experience, learn from them.” —Toni Clark

109. "Dreams are an alternate reality that offers insight and clarity, revealing an alternate perspective for us to explore." —Stephanie Banks

Which of these dream quotes is your favorite?

dreamsmean different things to different people.

They can also be interpreted in countless ways; whether you like to dream or not.

I hope these dream quotes have inspired or motivated you for your next overnight stay.

Which of these dream quotes is your favorite?

Do you have any other interesting dream quotes to share with us?

Tell us in the comments section below.

December 8, 2022 5:00 pm EST

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