#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

#either #extremes #happy #lose #must

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

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#both #entrance #evil #given #heart

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#hour #knows #mind #plenitude #rather

...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry spices spiraling across the corridor and listening to two guys outside yelling at each other in Russian and someone practicing stormy flamboyant violin somewhere, and slowly realizing that there was not a single person in the world who could see me or ask me what I was doing or tell me to do anything else, and I felt as if at any moment the bedsit might detach itself from the buildings like a luminous soap bubble and drift off into the night, bobbing gently above the rooftops and the river and the stars. ↗

— Tana French

#independence #noise #reverie #solitude #life

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

#forever #found #ideal #made #much

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#labor #pleasure #reverie #thought

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #rather #reverie #than #yourself

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

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood

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

#daily #disrupted #duties #either #getting