Arthur Symons Quotes

Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into dreams; it would be better if I was sleeping, because dreams become good metaphors for what's really going on inside of you.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.