Alas Quote by Phoebe Cary

For any dream we have...a reminder that's largely about focus and persistence.

— Alex Low

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

— Robert Browning

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

— Annie Dillard

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

— Claudius Claudianus

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think…

— Anonymous

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake…

— Jackie Gleason

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…

— William Shakespeare

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

— Josephine Baker

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have…

— Ben Okri

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.

— Michael Bruce

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;…

— Victor Hugo

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking…

— Cormac McCarthy