Reverie Quotes
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One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
— Mark Stevens
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
— Gaston Bachelard
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
You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.
— Emmanuel Aghado
With a whirl of thought oppressedI sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead. — Jonathan Swift
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
— Gaston Bachelard
My reverie jumps me into the middle of the period and I conjure the giant, unforgettable figure of Douglas Adams, sadly absent from the feast.
— Richard Dawkins
When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.
— Bryant McGill
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
— Jeanette Winterson
Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.
— C.J. Sansom
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
— Antoine Rivarol
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
A perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
— Madame De Stael
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
— John Locke
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
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
— William Ellery Channing
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?
— Milan Kundera
Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.
— Jodine Turner
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
— Norah Jones
If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie
— Nico J. Genes
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
— Mary Ritter Beard
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
— Gaston Bachelard
malady of reverie.
— Oscar Wilde
And he sank into reverie, which lasted a long time.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery