 | "I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."
- Aeschylus
, Agamemnon. |
| "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
- Anatole France
. |
| "Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle
, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. |
| "Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."
- Brett Butler
, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'. |
| "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". |
| "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
, "Eleonora". |
| "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."
- Friedrich von Schiller
. |
| "You see things; and you say, 'Why ?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not ?' "
- George Bernard Shaw
, "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1. |
| "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
. |
| "Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."
- Homer
, The Odyssey. |