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
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! – Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anaïs Nin
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. – Steven Wright
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. – V.V. Rozanov
I am afraid I have done sadly too much sitting and dreaming since I have been up. – James Ward (1843–1925), letter to H.J.W., 1873
Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles. – Lorraine Skylark
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
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. РLuis Bu̱uel
Television is simply automated daydreaming. – Lee Loevinger
I live my daydreams in music. – Albert Einstein
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
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. – Victor Hugo
