"Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle, quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 18 by Diogenes Laertius

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." - Elias Canetti, The Human Province

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being." - Sigmund Freud

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." - William Hazlitt, On Dreams

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"In a dream you are never eighty." - Anne Sexton, Old

"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read." - The Talmud

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Higher Pantheism

"The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair." - Francis Thompson

"In dreams begins responsibility." - William Butler Yeats

"If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?"
- THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, Dream-Pedlary

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!" - MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes

"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
. . . Or does it explode?"
- LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem

"The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream."
- CARL SANDBURG, Washington Monument by Night

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." - Carnegie, Dale

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"We are near awakening when we dream that we dream." - Novalis [a.k.a. Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801)] 1798

"All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." - Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) 'A Dream Within a Dream' 1827

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) 'Eleonora' 1841

"Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream." - Schwartz, David

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Thoreau, Henry David