Best Daydreaming Lines
175 Daydreaming quotes by 150 unique authors
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We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those…
— Tim O'Brien
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I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
— Julie Garwood
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I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems…
— Taylor Swift
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You deserve to die," I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. "Excuse me?" "Nothing." "Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander…
— John Dryden
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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External…
— Alexandre Dumas
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There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With…
— Lauren Willig
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
— Bram Stoker
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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
— Robert Jordan
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Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find…
— Michael Morpurgo
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I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Daydreaming subverts the world.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine…
— Charlotte Bronte
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by…
— Rita Dove
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Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,'…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
— Richard Brautigan
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She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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