Quotes · Skopia

31 quotes

1943

★ 1.8

Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding.

Joseph Addison

1712

★ 1.9

Speech · Commencement address

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2011

★ 1.9

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Eames

Inception · 2010

★ 2.1

Song · Rock music

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, Or is it something worse?

Bruce Springsteen

The River · 1980

★ 2.2

Film · Psychological (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological · Drama

No dream is ever just a dream.

Dr. Wiliam Harford

Eyes Wide Shut · 1999

★ 2.2

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Fantine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 2.2

Dreams are a second life. I have never been able to cross through those gates of ivory or horn which separate us from the invisible world without a sense of dread.

Gerard de Nerval

1855

★ 2.6

Poem · Epic poem

A dream, too, is from Zeus.

Homer

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 3.3

Play

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Life is a Dream · 1635

★ 3.5

Personal journal

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1816

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows · 1908

★ 3.5

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

Elias Canetti

1972

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

1989

★ 3.5

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke-and found that life was duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Beauty and Duty · 1840

★ 3.6

Play · Drama (play)

Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

Henrik Ibsen

1892

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1979

★ 3.6

Poem

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

1899

★ 3.7

Novel

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 3.7

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

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.

Heraclitus

Plutarch, Moralia

★ 3.7

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco de Goya

1799

★ 3.8

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Musical · Romantic comedy

All I do is dream of you the whole night through.

Kathy Selden

Singin' in the Rain · 1952

★ 3.8

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

My dream is to become hopeless.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1992

★ 3.9

Novel · Post-colonial literature

If you're happy in a dream... does that count?

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things · 1997

★ 3.9

Poem

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Dreams · 1923

★ 5.3

Psychological literature

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1899

★ 5.5

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

The stuff that dreams are made of.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 6.4

Poem

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem · 1951

★ 6.9

Poem

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

1874

★ 7.0

Poem · Newspaper

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849

★ 7.2

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