Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Pindar

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull

Never let your dreams go away.
Mike Piazza

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
David Herbert Lawrence

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.
Mike Farrell

Dreams have as much influence as actions.
Stephane Mallarme

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger

Dreams grow holy put in action.
Adelaide Anne Procter

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
Mitt Romney

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
Doug Coupland

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
Ayumi Hamasaki

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Doug Coupland