Erich Fromm Quotes

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

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

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

Man is what his dreams are.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.