William Shakespeare on Dreams
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“There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags to-night.”
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
“There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.”
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
“Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me.”
“For never yet one hour in his bed Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep, But have been waked by his timorous dreams.”
“Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep.”
“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..."”
“I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind.”
“Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.”
“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”