#reverie

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ↗

— John Locke

#ideas #mind #our #reflection #regard

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#changing #color #idle #mind #reverie

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

...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