We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

Cultural  

1. A line from the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare; it continues, “and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” It is spoken by the magician Prospero. He has just made a large group of spirits vanish and is reminding his daughter and her fiancé that mortal life also ends quickly.

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Example Sentences

There is no passage which Mr. Carlyle so often quotes as the sublime— We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.—Sir,

From The Tempest by Shakespeare, William

On one occasion he wrote of the topic round which most metaphysical speculation revolves:— We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded by a sleep.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir

He remembered them now: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

Lincoln: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life ...

From Abraham Lincoln by Drinkwater, John