„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.“

— Sappho

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„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.Sweet is the god but still I amin agony and far from my strength.for I had hope (none now) to sharesomething of the blessed gods,nor was I so foolishas to scorn pleasant toys.Now may I haveall these things.“
— Sappho
„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
„To die, to sleep -To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…“
— William Shakespeare
„You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.“
— Haruki Murakami
„There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.“
— Jodi Picoult
„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