Joseph Addison Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Dream, Hope

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151

• I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Mistake, Believe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.59

• Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.463

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