Interpretation Of Dreams Quotes

• Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

  Marsha Norman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Success Comes in Cans: Learning Lessons for Life". Book by Kriss Akabusi and Tricia Hartley, 2006.

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• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  Gail Godwin

  Dream, Mean, Language

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Summarizing, Royal

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

  Elias Canetti

  Inspirational, Dream, Helping

  Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269

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• A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Soul, Looks

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• We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Judgment, Awake

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Art, Interpretation

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.134, Princeton University Press

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• Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

  Vivian Mercier

  Girl, Dream, Sex

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• One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Diary entry, October 5, 1962.

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• Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Deliverance, Prison

  Journal Intime 3 December (1872)

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• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

  Bill Watterson

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Sleep, Awake At Night

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• The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Reality, Knowledge And Power

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books

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• [Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Simple, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Men, Facts

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• Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Process, Interpretation

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