Hope is a waking dream.
—Aristotle
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
—Sigmund Freud
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
—Nikolai Gogol
Every dream is wish-fulfillment.
—Sigmund Freud
The dream does not calculate or think; generally does not judge: it merely transform.
—Sigmund Freud
The dream is the guardian of sleep.
—Sigmund Freud
Not only dreams are wish fulfillments, so are hysterical attacks.
—Sigmund Freud