Night is longer than day for those who dream and day is longer than night for those who make their dreams come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. — John Locke Copy Share Image
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. — John Locke Copy Share Image
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Life is reverie and dream, calm day, breaking sea and so, skerry and strong stream, storm, fog, and powdery snow. Blossom and… — Bergsveinn Birgisson Copy Share Image
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She could stand to think that life’s experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn’t bear to believe that… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
“I’m watching the rainbows rising from the far water place lost in the artificial light of midnight. I’m watching birds flying hither… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided.… — David K. Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Even the Dreamers, lost in their great reverie, feel it, for it’s Billie they reach for in sadness, and Isley they hum… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the arms of the angel, fly away from here…you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“I blink rapidly, breaking our reverie and force myself to focus on something,anything, other than his beauty. Or his body. A body… — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“I’m scared that my world of reverie will soon spill from my head, splashing every horizon in its illusory shade until it’s… — Stephen Mosley Copy Share Image