Reverie Quotes

100 quotes by 64 authors

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being… — Charles Baudelaire
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican… — Alexander Hamilton
In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the… — Sarah McLachlan
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:… — Darin Strauss
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of… — Victor Hugo
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary,… — Gary A. Kowalski
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from… — Gaston Bachelard
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean… — Joseph Conrad
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and… — James Russell Lowell
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe… — Gaston Bachelard
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. — Gaston Bachelard

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