There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell 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
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie.… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Dreams are a way to tell ourselves that we are still capable of bringing happiness in our lives. Never stop dreaming. — Chanda Kaushik 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
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing 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
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard 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
By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time,… — Gaston Bachelard 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
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel 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
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
