„I am your dwarf.I am the enemy within.I am the boss of your dreams.See. Your hand shakes.It is not palsy or booze.It is your Doppelgangertrying to get out.Beware… Beware…“

— Anne Sexton

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„I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.“
— Tim Burton
„Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.“
— Paulo Coelho
„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.“
— Sappho
„Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.“
— Zhuangzi
„When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?“
— Zhuangzi