Dream Quotes by William Shakespeare

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

— William Shakespeare

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

— William Shakespeare

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

— William Shakespeare

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

— William Shakespeare

When I waked, I cried to dream again

— William Shakespeare

To sleep perchance to dream

— William Shakespeare

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

— William Shakespeare

“Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave”

— William Shakespeare

“Sblood, but you will not hear me:— If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.”

— William Shakespeare

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

— William Shakespeare

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

— William Shakespeare

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.

— William Shakespeare

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

— William Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

— William Shakespeare

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

— William Shakespeare

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

— William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what…

— William Shakespeare

“Which dreams indeed are ambition;for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. A dream itself is…

— William Shakespeare

“O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream, Too flattering-sweet to be substantial”

— William Shakespeare

“What relish is in this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still…

— William Shakespeare

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I…

— William Shakespeare

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo:…

— William Shakespeare

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a…

— William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand…

— William Shakespeare

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,…

— William Shakespeare

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,…

— William Shakespeare

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly…

— William Shakespeare

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as…

— William Shakespeare

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I…

— William Shakespeare

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death…

— William Shakespeare

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did…

— William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin…

— William Shakespeare

“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My bosom's lord sits lightly…

— William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows…

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff that dreams are made of.

— William Shakespeare

“We are such stuff 173 As dreams are made on”

— William Shakespeare

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

— William Shakespeare

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

— William Shakespeare