Daydreaming Quotations
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| A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. | |||
| - W.H. Auden | |||
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| Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. | |||
| - Luis Buñuel | |||
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| When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. | |||
| - 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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| He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. | |||
| - Anaïs Nin | |||
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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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| How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! | |||
| - Logan Pearsall Smith | |||
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| Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. | |||
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut | |||
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| I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. | |||
| - Steven Wright | |||