Woodworks :: May 2004

Each month, we will be bringing you quotes from our favorite books, movies, comics, games, and television shows that pertain to the monthly theme. This month's theme is: Dreams.

"To die, to sleep -
To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause."

Shakespeare's Hamlet, III.1

"Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Shakespeare's Hamlet, II.2

"I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me."

Morpheus, Matrix Reloaded

"Elric dreamed. He dreamed not merely of the end of his world but of the end of an entire cycle in the history of the cosmos. He dreamed that he was not only Elric of Melnibone but that he was other men, too - men who were pledged to some numinous cause which even they could not describe. And he dreamed that he had dreamed of the Dark Ship and Tanelorn and Agak and Gagak while he lay exhausted upon a beach somewhere beyond the borders of Pikarayd; and when he woke up he was smiling sardonically, congratulating himself for the possession of a grandiose imagination. But he could not clear his head entirely of the impression left by that dream."

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock

Urn: "Now there's a power. Harnessing the lightning! The dream of mankind!"
Didactylos: "Is it? It's not my dream. I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters."

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

"You're nothing, you're nobody, you're a stupid dream. Well, all dreams come to an end."

Vilos Cohaagen, Total Recall

Arwen: "Do you remember when we first met?" Aragorn: "I thought I had strayed into a dream."

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (film)

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

Über-Morlock, The Time Machine

"Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky."

The Odyssey by Homer