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Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish Dramatist

This document contains over 50 quotes about dreams from various historical figures from different cultures and eras. The quotes discuss dreams as a means of guidance, a window into the unseen, a way to access other realities and truths, and as something that can influence and change one's mind and ideas. Dreams are described as poetry, a journey into other worlds, and something that all humans experience.

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Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish Dramatist

This document contains over 50 quotes about dreams from various historical figures from different cultures and eras. The quotes discuss dreams as a means of guidance, a window into the unseen, a way to access other realities and truths, and as something that can influence and change one's mind and ideas. Dreams are described as poetry, a journey into other worlds, and something that all humans experience.

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"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 color
of my mind." Emily Bronte Enlist novelist.
"I dream, therefore I exist." J. August
Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish dramatist,
novelist, poet.
“Now Allah has created the dream not only
as a means of guidance and instruction, I
refer to the dream, but he has made it a
window on the Unseen.” Words of the
Prophet Mohammed, Arabia, 7th century A.D.
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when
deep sleep fallet upon men, in slumbering
upon the bed; then he opened the ears of
men, and stealth their instructions." words of
Elihu, in Job 33.15.....Holy Land, sometimes
B.C.
"Once upon a time, I, Chuang-tzu, dreamt I
was a butterfly, flittering hither and thither, to
all intents and purposes a
butterfly...suddenly I awoke... Now I do not
know whether I was then a man dreaming I
was a butterfly, or whether I am now a
butterfly dreaming I am a man." Chuang-tzu
Chinese philosopher.
"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."
Akira Kurosawa. Japanese filmmaker.
"The future belongs to those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor
Roosevelt
"Existence would be intolerable if we were
never to dream." Anatole France, French
novelist.
" And He said, " Hear now my words: If
there be a prophet among you, I , the Lord,
will make Myself known to him in a vision,
and will speak unto him in a dream." Words
of the Lord of the Universe revealed to
Moses, Aaron and Miriam.... and preserved in
Numbers 12.6
"Dreams seek the truth.” Sara Stanges, high
school student “He, who does not believe in
the true dream, does not believe in Allah nor
in the Day of Reckoning." Words of
Mohammed
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream
affords the dreamer some light on himself, it
is not the person with closed eyes who
makes the discovery, but the person with
open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts
together. Dream -- a scintillating mirage
surrounded by shadows -- is essentially
POETRY." Michel Leiris (1901-90), French
anthropologist, author.
"Even sleepers are workers and
collaborators in what goes on in the
Universe." Heraclitus Greek Philosopher
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly
in dreams than the imagination when
awake?" Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),
Italian artist, scientist, architect, genius!
"Grasping the True nature of dreams, May I
train myself in the clear Light of the
Miraculous Transformation. May I recognize
whatever apparent as being my own Spiritual
forms, May the Trinity be realised."Words of
Guru Padma Sambhava, Lung-ta's Rider,
Tibet, 8th century A.D., extracted from "Root
verses" of "The Bardo Thodol" and re-edited
by Gérald 'Aoust.
"Dreams---- Who is to say where reality
lies....and if reality lies...what is the truth?"
Kristin Joy Bender, dancer/choreographer
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I
have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my
dreams." W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet,
playwright.
"It has never been my object to record my
dreams, just the determination to realize
them." Man Ray (1890-1976), U.S. artist,
photographer.
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that
the submerged truth sometimes comes to
the top." A Room of One's Own.Virginia
Woolf (1882-1941), English writer.
"What dreaming does is give us
the fluidity to enter into other
worlds by destroying our sense of
knowing this world...Dreaming is a journey of
unthinkable dimensions, a journey that, after
making us perceive everything we can
humanly perceive, makes the assemblage
point jump outside the human domain and
perceive the inconceivable." Carlos
Castenada American anthropologist and
mystic.
"Dreams are often most profound when they
seem the most crazy." Sigmund Freud, The
Interpretation of Dreams, 1900.
"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a
dream-world into reality." Henry David
Thoreau (1817-62), American philosopher
and writer.
"Learn from your dreams what you lack."
W.H. Auden (1907-73), English poet and
playwright.
"Whoso regarded dreams is like him that
catches at a shadow, and followed after the
wind." Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 34:2.
"You see things and you say 'Why?'. But I
dream things that never were, and I say 'Why
Not?'" George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950),
Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
"The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine
nature". Cicero
"If the dream is a translation of waking life,
waking life is also a translation of the
dream." Rene Magritte (1849-1912),
Surrealist.
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all.
I think nature is very unnatural. I think the
truly natural things are dreams, which nature
can't touch with decay." Bob Dylan (b.1941),
U.S. singer, songwriter.
"Sleep hath its own world, // and a wide
realm of wild reality.// and dreams in their
development have breath, // and tears, and
tortures, and the touch of joy." The Dream.
Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet.
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure
for it is not to dream less, but to dream more,
to dream all the time." Embrace of Things
Past. Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French
novelist.
"If a little dream sharing is dangerous, the
cure for it is not to share dreams less, but to
share dreams more, to share dreams all the
time." Richard Catlett Wilkerson (1955-2075),
Global Cyber-Dream Pioneer.
"The Language of the Dream/Night is
contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a
language of Images and Sensations, the
various dialects of which are far less
different from each other, than the various
Day-Languages of Nations." Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet.
"There couldn't be a society of people who
didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
William Burroughs (b. 1914), U.S. Author.
"If someone were to tell me I had twenty
years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend
them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of
activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in
dreams.'" Luis Buñuel (1900-83), Spanish
film-maker and surrealist.
"I am not quite sure whether I am
dreaming or remembering, whether I
have lived my life or dreamed it.
Just as dreams do, memory makes
me profoundly aware of the
unreality, the evanescence of the world, a
fleeting image in the moving water.” Eugène
Ionesco (born 1912), French dramatist
"I can never decide whether my dreams are
the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts
the result of my dreams." D.H. Lawrence
(1885-1930), English novelist.
"A dream is a scripture, and many
scriptures are nothing but dreams." The
Name or the Rose. Umberto Ecco (born
1932), Italian novelist and literary critic.
"Dreams have only the pigmentation of
fact." Nightwood. Djuna Barnes (born 1892),
American novelist.
"Maybe the wildest dreams are but the
needful preludes of the truth." Alfred Lord
Tennyson (1809-92), English poet.
"Travelers repose and dream among my
leaves". William Blake
"As I live and am a man, this is an
unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the
substances of my life." Samuel T. Coleridge,
1803
“Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then
we may perhaps find the truth F.A. Keule,
German chemist, who discovered the
structure of benzene in a dream
“For the Days of the Lord are coming......
And it shall come to pass afterward, saith
God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions. Even on
my servants and handmaidens I will pour
out, in those days, my Spirit; and they shall
prophesy." Words of the Lord himself
revealed to the prophet Joël preserved in
Joël 2.28-30 in the Old Testament and, due to
their crucial importance, repeated in the New
Testament in Acts 2.16-18.
"I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told
the dream, which was mine; as if it were
another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed
what is life when thinking of the past, but
dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who
seems to be oneself?" Stopford Brooke,
1899
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
William Shakespeare .

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