“ To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ”
- Antoine Rivarol- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. ”
- Charles Simmons- Copy
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“ Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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“ Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 999
“ Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ 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 sensual. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. ”
- Peter S. Beagle- Copy
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“ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”
- James Douglas- Copy
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“ How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie. ”
- Edward Jenner- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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