Quotes and Sayings about Reverie

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Power, Control)

"Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Reverie)

"The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Energy, Spirit, Youth)

"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
(Related: Thought, Idea, Dawn, Garden, May, Reverie)

"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."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Quiet, Reverie, School, Silence, Sound)

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Thought, Intellect, Labor, Pleasure, Reverie)

"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
- John Locke
(Related: Ideas, Mind, Reflection, Reverie, Understanding)

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Mind, Reverie)

"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Extremes, Reverie, Self)

"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
(Related: Project)

"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Heart, Evil, Mind, Open)

"One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie."
- Mark Stevens
(Related: Reflection, Reverie, Silence)