Quotes about daydreaming

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities it keeps your avatar strong.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.

Shannon A. Thompson - November Snow

She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.

Nikhil Karke -

Every Daydream-hope starts with little incentives !

Dave Matthes - Ejaculation: New Poems and Stories

When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him,a glimmer and a glint over those eyes,he knew how the world worked,and took pleasure in its wickedness.He would give a dime or two to those sitting on the street,he would tell them things like:"It won't get any better,"and"Might as well use this to buy your next fix,"and finally"It's better to die high than to live sober,"His suit was presse

Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.

Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Ryan Lilly -

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

Shaun Hick -

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

Dave Matthes - Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

There's folly in her stridethat's the rumorjustified by liesI've seen her up closebeneath the sheetsand sometime during the summershe was mine for a few sweet months in the falland parts of December((( To get to the heart of this unsolvable equation, one must first become familiar with the physical, emotional, and immaterial makeup as to what constitutes both war and peace. )))I found her looking through a windowthe same window I'd been looking throughShe smiled and her eyes never falteredthis f

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

The power behind living a dream lies in either believing it's a dream or knowing it's not.

James A. Murphy - The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?

Dave Matthes - Bar Nights

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.

Ufuoma Apoki -

You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.

Ufuoma Apoki -

Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed

Sanhita Baruah -

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Ian McEwan - Atonement

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Anna Sands - Falling For Therapy: Psychotherapy From A Client's Point Of View

There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (...) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am queen. It fulfils my need to have a fantasy land, and that need may be born of creativity as well as lack or repression. Our fantasies are about exploration and experimentation and the power of the imagination. Looked at intelligently, they can reveal a great deal. But there is a difference between fantasising and th

Criss Jami - Healology

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Ana Claudia Antunes - Dearer Mirror

How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!

Douglas Self -

He stared at her, knowing with certainty thathe was falling in love. He looked the other way, Her face triggered through his heart, forcing him to look back, and admire that beauty!!Soon He pulled her close andkissed her beneath a blanket of stars,wondering how on earth he'd been luckyenough to find her... Wait it was morning, the dream was actually over !!

Richelle E. Goodrich -

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

Richelle E. Goodrich -

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.  I am a storyteller.  Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Dave Matthes - Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

The day I became a writerit wasn't the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn't the first time someone actually paid for one of my bookswhich happens less and less as time goes onIt was the day I realizedthat everything is created by manGod, Satan, Judas, phobias, excrement, even deatheven womeneverything is created by manSo I said to myselfshit, let me make something let me tape together some words and sentencesand p

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound p

Dave Matthes - Bar Nights

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

Dave Matthes - Return to the Madlands

...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

Dave Matthes - Paradise City

To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.

Martin M. Stupak -

When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.

Richelle E. Goodrich -

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Avijeet Das -

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

William Shakespeare -

...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.

Cherise Sinclair - Baby

You're my hero, Rhage."Ears pricked up, Rhage watched her closely. Anything she said was important to him, and how lovely was that?"I always thought I'd grow up and find my own hero." Rainie grimaced at herself in the mirror. Obviously she shouldn't have wasted her youth on reading and daydreaming. "But I gave up; I'm not holding out for a hero anymore.

Brian James - Life is But a Dream

Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.

Michael Pollan - A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Theodore Roethke -

(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.

Solange nicole -

Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.

Alexander McCall Smith - The Novel Habits of Happiness

She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there.

Pen -

Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.

Bo Bennett -

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

Dr. Seuss - And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Jill Eisenstadt - From Rockaway

Her legs swing complete afternoons away.

Dave Matthes - the Bastard

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day.

Dave Matthes - Bar Nights

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Dave Matthes - Bar Nights

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Dave Matthes - Bar Nights

So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...

Indu Muralidharan - The Reengineers

I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, going about his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with respect. Did his failures in life lead him to seek solace in daydreams or did his wandering mind stand in the way of his potential success? One must have triggered the other, and then it would have been both wo