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- Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 4 scene 1
- To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
- Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Dream Within a Dream
- To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
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