Dream Quotes

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim… Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

Never forget to dream.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up – like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags – like a heavy lead. Or does it explode?

Without darkness there are no dreams.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me even after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. (quoting Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy)

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

I can make you mine Taste your lips of wine Any time, night or day; Only trouble is, gee whiz I’m dreaming my life away. I need you so that I could die, I love you so, and what is why Whenever I want you all I have to do Is dre–eee–eee–eee–eem, dream dream dream… […]

Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.