Could we each be dreaming our own private universe? Though the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Is the Universe Alive? Science 2012
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. Jack Kerouac
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. Jack Kerouac
This is the story of a dream. The dream of giving the very best education to Britain’s brightest children however humble their background. The grammar schools were set up to deliver this dream. The Grammar School: A Secret History I, BBC 2012
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal’. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I ... have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification – one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day ... When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ Martin Luther King
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. Martin Luther King, The Trumpet of Conscience
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream – a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Martin Luther King, The Papers of Martin Luther King vol VII
The dream that I had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare. Martin Luther King, cited King in the Wilderness, Sky Atlantic 2018
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh
Surely a man is entitled to the privacy of his dreams? David and Bathsheba 1951 starring Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward & James Robinson Justice & Jayne Meadows & Raymond Massey & Kieron Moore et al, director Henry King
These things seem unreal to me, like a dream. And I am unsure if they are real things that happened or just dreams. Amanda Knox
Freud said, ‘Dreams are wishes’. The Sopranos s4e11: Calling All Cars starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Dr Melfi to Tony
You people are fucked. You’re living in a dream. The Sopranos s6e21: Made in America, AJ
It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 starring Forest Whitaker & John Tormey & Henry Silva & Cliff Gorman & Isaach De Bankole & Camille Winbush & Tricia Vessey & Richard Portnow et al, director Jim Jarmusch
I have these dreams, sir. The Manchurian Candidate 2004 starring Denzel Washington & Meryl Street & Liev Schreiber & Kimberly Elise & Jon Voight & Vera Farmiga & Jeffrey Wright & Simon McBurney & Bruno Ganz et al, Melvin
The real crime is not committing to your dream. Henry’s Crime 2011 starring Keanu Reeves & James Caan & Vera Farmiga & Judy Greer & Fisher Stevens & Peter Stormare & Bill Duke & Danny Hoch et al, director Malcolm Venville, Caan to Reeves
Do you know what those executives dream about out there behind their desks? They dream they’re great Rollerballers. They dream they’re Jonathan. Rollerball 1975 starring James Caan & John Houseman & Maud Adams & John Beck & Moses Gunn & Pamela Hensley & Barbara Trentham & John Normington & Shame Rimmer & Burt Kwouk et al, director Norman Jewison
Another dream that failed. There is nothing sadder. Star Trek s1e24: This Side of Paradise, Kirk
24,746. Kira: What do Klingons dream about?
Worf: Things that will send cold chills down your spine and wake you in the middle of the night. No, it is better that you do not know. Excuse me. [exit] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e6: Rejoined
I’ve been having these dreams. They’re very intense. Star Trek: Voyager s3e6: Remember, Captain's log
This is no dream! This is really happening! Rosemary’s Baby 1968 starring Mia Farrow & John Cassavetes & Ruth Gordon & Sidney Blackmer & Marurice Evans & Ralph Bellamy & Charles Grodin & Patsy Kelly & Angela Dorian et al, director Roman Polanski, Rosemary
I had a dream, Ronnie. The other night. And you were speaking to a large crowd just like him [Kennedy]. Just like him. And you were saying great things. Born on the Fourth of July 1989 starring Tom Cruise & Willem Dafoe & Kyra Sedgwick & Raymond J Barry & Jerry Levine & Frank Whaley & Caroline Kava & Cordelia Gonzalez & Ed Lauter & John Getz & Michael Wincott & Edith Diaz & Bob Gunton et al, director Oliver Stone, mother
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize. Muhammad Ali
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. W B Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream