80 Reverie Quotes
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Famous Reverie Quotes
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
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. — Okakura Kakuzo
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. — John Keats
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — Gaston Bachelard
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. — Desiderius Erasmus
Entangled between a dream and a coma. — Yelawolf
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. — Edgar Allan Poe
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare. — Alexander Pushkin
I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed. — Delano Johnson
Short Reverie Quotes
- Meditation and water are wedded for ever. — Herman Melville
- The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving. — Gaston Bachelard
- A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham
- Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
- Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. — Carl Jung
- He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin
- The revery alone will do If bees are few. — Emily Dickinson
- Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. — Mary Ritter Beard
- Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. — William Ellery Channing
- The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. — Gaston Bachelard
Requiem Quotes
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? — Lauren Oliver
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. — Lauren Oliver
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. — Darren Aronofsky
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. — Darren Aronofsky
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music. — Elie Wiesel
I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked. — Jared Leto
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own. — Ariel Durant
I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films. — Darren Aronofsky
People Writing About Reverie
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Gaston Bachelard |
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 Antoine Rivarol |
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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 Victor Hugo |
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 Okakura Kakuzo |
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 John Keats |
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More Reverie Quotes
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement. — John of Kronstadt
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
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
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. — Emily Dickinson
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place. — Gaston Bachelard
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries. — Andres Segovia
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes. — 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. — Sayings
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances. — Alphonse Karr
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
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones. — Stephane Mallarme
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley
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
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. — John Locke
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child. — Gaston Bachelard
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens
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
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world. — Gaston Bachelard
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state. — 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
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back. — Ian McEwan
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
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