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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. -- John Locke
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. -- Gaston Bachelard
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. -- Antoine Rivarol
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. -- Victor Hugo
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me -- Norah Jones
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. -- Charles Simmons
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being. -- Gaston Bachelard
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, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology." -- Gaston Bachelard
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 write my reveries only for myself. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
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 a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. -- Charles Baudelaire
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 probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. -- Hermann Hesse
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances. -- Gaston Bachelard
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. -- Jim Woodring
We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies. -- Gaston Bachelard
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 the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night. -- Edward Abbey
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. -- William Ellery Channing
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. -- Mark Stevens
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. -- James Douglas
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 probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. -- Hermann Hesse
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness. -- Jeanette Winterson
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. -- Ellen Glasgow
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. -- Carl Jung
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. -- Gaston Bachelard
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. -- Madame de Stael
When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie. -- Bryant McGill
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. -- William Butler Yeats
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. -- Gaston Bachelard
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name. -- John Green
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I. -- Gaston Bachelard
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares. -- Gaston Bachelard
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills. -- George Santayana
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 nourishment. -- Victor Hugo
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead. -- Jonathan Swift
She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led." -- L.M. Montgomery
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it. -- Gaston Bachelard
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 imagined by reverie. -- Gaston Bachelard
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie. -- Gaston Bachelard
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 is to the ocean of waves. -- Victor Hugo
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 consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication. -- Rollo May
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 angel, may you find some comfort here... -- Sarah McLachlan
Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend." "Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all. -- Tera Lynn Childs

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