Sleep And Dream Quotes

• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

  Plutarch

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Sleep, Awake At Night

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• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

  Brian Aldiss

  Love, Dream, Sleep

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

  William Shakespeare

  Noise, Tempest, Isle

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [147]

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• Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

  Vivian Mercier

  Girl, Dream, Sex

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• For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

  Samuel Lover

  Dream, Dear, Sleep Dream

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.108

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• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  Edgar Cayce

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Love You, Heart

  "Fictional character: Cinderella". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

  Bill Watterson

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Soul, Looks

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• Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Men, Mind

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 398

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• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  Gail Godwin

  Dream, Mean, Language

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Diary entry, October 5, 1962.

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• We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Judgment, Awake

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

  Aristotle

  Dream, Insomnia, Consciousness

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

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• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

  Elias Canetti

  Inspirational, Dream, Helping

  Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269

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• Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Dream, Sleep

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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