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.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream – As we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through And say at the end, “The dream is true!”

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.