Best Reverie Sayings
100 Reverie quotes by 64 unique authors
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would…
— Hermann Hesse
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
— Antoine Rivarol
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds…
— Victor Hugo
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Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person…
— Rollo May
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The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which…
— Gaston Bachelard
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May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on…
— Edward Abbey
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Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
— John Locke
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
— Steven Wright
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It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal…
— Thomas Moore
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt…
— Cassandra Clare
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Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
— Herman Melville
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
— Jeanette Winterson
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The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her…
— Ian Mcewan
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.…
— Aleister Crowley
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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious
— Emily Dickinson
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