# Quotes about dreams

- Quotes: 46
- Authors: 35
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.json

## Quotes

> Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

[Daphne du Maurier](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daphne-du-maurier.md) · [Rebecca](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daphne-du-maurier/rebecca.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daphne-du-maurier/rebecca/last-night-i-dreamt.md)

Topics: [nostalgia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nostalgia.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Happy endings were for children’s stories and fool. You live in misery, and then you die. Life, by definition, was not designed to end happily.
>
> Louis continued aft. No happy ending, then. That was a fact, certain as death itself. He was living at the moment in a dream, an imagined world where everything went right.
>
> But—dreams are real while they last. Could you say more of life?
>
> A dream sequence was no more than a happy interlude, but maybe a happy interlude could last for an awful long time.

[Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [Convergence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/convergence.md) · p. 529 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/convergence/happy-endings-were.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> If we dreamt the same thing every night, it would affect us as much as the objects we see every day. And if the artisan were sure to dream every night for twelve hours' duration that he was king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king, who should dream every night that he was an artisan.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/if-we-dreamt.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Life is a dream a little less inconstant.

[Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/life-is-a-dream.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> “Maester Luwin says there’s nothing in dreams that a man need fear.”
>
> “There is,” said Jojen.
>
> “What?”
>
> “The past. The future. The truth.”

[George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Clash of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/maester-luwin-says.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> One of the greatest difficulties I encounter in my research is that people want to believe that their dreams mean something, but all the research I’m doing seems to indicate just the opposite.

[Connie Willis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis.md) · [Lincoln's Dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams.md) · p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams/one-of-the.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> “In my opinion, dream interpretation as practiced by most Freudian psychiatrists, including some of mine at the Institute, is nothing more than a fancy system of guessing. I think trying to understand the ‘real’ meaning of a dream without reference to the physical state of the dreamer is as pointless as trying to understand what a fever ‘means’ without studying the body.”

[Connie Willis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis.md) · [Lincoln's Dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams.md) · p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams/in-my-opinion.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> “I’m a scientist, not a psychiatrist. I don’t believe dreams have a ‘real’ meaning. They’re a physical process, and any ‘reality’ they have lies in the physical. Freud made no attempt to understand the physical. He felt the key to understanding dream lay in content, and came up with an elaborate system of symbols to explain the images in dreams.”

[Connie Willis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis.md) · [Lincoln's Dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams.md) · p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/lincolns-dreams/im-a-scientist.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.

[Patricia A. McKillip](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip.md) · [Winter Rose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose.md) · p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/i-could-not.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> For life is but a dream whose shapes return,
>
> Some frequently, some seldom, some by night
>
> And some by day.

[James Thomson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson.md) · [City Of Dreadful Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson/city-of-dreadful-night.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson/city-of-dreadful-night/for-life-is-but.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

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

[Emily Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte.md) · [Wuthering Heights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/ive-dreamt-in-my-life.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

[Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md) · [The Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road/and-the-dreams.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> My worst nightmare was a boring nightmare, the dream of visiting an empty place where nothing happened, with awful slowness. I would awake tired, with a few unremarkable traces that never seemed to do justice to the dull fear I had felt while still asleep: the memory of the low hum of an electric clock, of an aimless albino hound, of a voice incessantly announcing departure times over a public address system; and that summer, my job was a dream of this sort.

[Michael Chabon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon.md) · [The Mysteries of Pittsburgh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh/my-worst-nightmare.md)

Topics: [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we cannot go and read them except in our dreams.

[Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md) · [The Diamond Age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age/as-far-as-the.md)

Topics: [mathematics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mathematics.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> In this place, whether we call it Bruddersford or Pittford Falls, perfection is not to be found, neither in men nor in the lot they are offered, to say nothing of the tales we tell of them, these hints and guesses, words in the air and gesticulating shadows, these stumbling chronicles of a dream of life.

[J.B. Priestley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jb-priestley.md) · [The Good Companions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jb-priestley/the-good-companions.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jb-priestley/the-good-companions/in-this-place.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

[James Salter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter.md) · [A Sport and a Pastime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/the-dreams-are.md)

Topics: [reality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

[Gregory David Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts.md) · [Shantaram](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/a-dream-is-a-place.md)

Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> If you’ve not dreamed, you’ve never truly slept. Dreams are the place where you can be yourself; do anything, be anything. The mind set free.

[Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md) · [Early Riser](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser.md) · p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/if-youve-not.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> “Would you like to talk?”
>
> “When I dream, I am talking.”
>
> “But to yourself.”
>
> “Who knows me better?” He laughed softly.
>
> “And who can deceive you better,” she said a little tartly.

[Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md) · [The Dark Design](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design.md) · p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/would-you-like.md)

Topics: [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

[Shirley Jackson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson.md) · [The Haunting of Hill House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/the-haunting-of-hill-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/the-haunting-of-hill-house/no-live-organism.md)

Topics: [madness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream. (p67)

[Marge Piercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy.md) · [He, She and It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it/every-artist-creates.md)

Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Dreaming is like—it’s like being a slave. Your dreams come out of all the parts of you that you don’t have any control over.

[Stephen Donaldson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson.md) · [The Illearth War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war.md) · p. 439 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war/dreaming-is-like-its.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
>
> Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd,
>
> Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep,
>
> They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/the-revelations-of-devout.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> “I dreamed this,” he said in a helpless voice. “I dreamed this!”
>
> “Well, Mouche,” said Questioner in a chilly, admonitory voice, “I am sure you believe so. It is all very mystic and dreamlike, and though I can be sensitivity to the moods and impressions such places evoke, I try not to give way to them. When dream is most attractive, then is time to be alert and practical, for it is then that we are most in danger.”

[Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/i-dreamed-this.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns.

[Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Lord Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/a-man-that.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream — making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.

[Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Heart of Darkness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness/he-was-just.md)

Topics: [literature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence — that which makes its truth, its meaning — its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream — alone. . . .

[Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Heart of Darkness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness/it-is-impossible.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking, made possible by the conditions of the state of sleep. it is the dream-work which creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming - the explanation of its peculiar nature.

[Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/dreams-are-nothing.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Zhuang Zi, who dreamt of being a butterfly, and after his awakening posed himself a question: how does he know that he is not now a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuang Zi?

[Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/zhuang-zi-who.md)

Topics: [reality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [Changing Planes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/changing-planes.md) · p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/changing-planes/some-dreams-tell.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu.md) · [The Tale of Genji](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji/real-things-in-the.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

[John Cheever](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever.md) · [The Journals of John Cheever](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever/the-journals-of-john-cheever.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever/the-journals-of-john-cheever/i-do-not.md)

Topics: [sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/what-is-promised.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/my-dreams-are.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> There are many situations in life that we suddenly feel we have seen in dreams.

[Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/there-are-many.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.

[John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md) · [The Winter of Our Discontent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent/my-dreams-are.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.

[Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md) · [A Time of Changes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes.md) · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes/you-may-not.md)

Topics: [sin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> "Dreams do not foretell the future. They reveal states of mind in which the future may be implicit."

[Robertson Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies.md) · [The Deptford Trilogy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy/dreams-do-not.md)

Topics: [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations.

[Thomas Nashe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe.md) · [The Terrors of the Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night/a-dream-is-nothing-else.md)

Topics: [imagination](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/imagination.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> A dream is nothing else but the echo of our conceits in the day.

[Thomas Nashe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe.md) · [The Terrors of the Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night/a-dream-is-nothing.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure.

[Thomas Nashe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe.md) · [The Terrors of the Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-nashe/the-terrors-of-the-night/dreaming-is-no-other.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> May we not imagine that possibly this earthly life of ours is to the other life what sleeping is to waking? May not all our life be a dream and death an awakening? But an awakening to what? And supposing that everything is but the dream of God and that God one day will awaken? Will He remember His dream?

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/may-we-not.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md), [life after death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life-after-death.md)

> I am dreaming ...? Let me dream, if this dream is my life. Do not awaken me from it. I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. But do I really believe in it ...? And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/i-am-dreaming.md)

Topics: [immortality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> Years ago — how long was it? Seven years it must be — he had dreamed that he was walking through a pitch-dark room. And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: ‘We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.’ It was said very quietly, almost casually — a statement, not a command.

[George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/years-ago-how.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)

> It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

[James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/it-is-as-painful.md)

Topics: [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md), [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md), [birth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/birth.md)

> It was a couple of days before Kate Schechter became aware of any of these things, or indeed of anything at all in the outside world.
>
> She passed the time quietly in a world of her own in which she was surrounded as far as the eye could see with old cabin trunks full of past memories in which she rummaged with great curiosity, and sometimes bewilderment. Or, at least, about a tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid, and often painful or uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which surprised her. Insofar as she recognised at all that she was dreaming, she realised that she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

[Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md) · [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-soul.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-soul/it-was-a-couple.md)

Topics: [dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams.md)