A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul. —GASTON… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Vision without action is a daydream, and action without vision is a nightmare. Your heart is free, have the courage to follow… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“But he did not think…thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life… — 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
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No… — Veronica Rossi 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
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 is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood?… — Gaston Bachelard 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
“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
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy, I'll be your hope, I'll be your love & all… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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