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


Tobacco and alcohol; delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bu?uel


To lose one's self in reverie; one must be either very happy; or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol


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


Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


People don't come to church for preachments; of course; but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut;?Jr.


One man's daydreaming is another man's woman. ~Grey Livingston


One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston


One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston


"If you've never stared off in the distance; then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz; ""Mrs. Potter's Lullaby;"" performed by Counting Crows"


I was trying to daydream; but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright


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. ~Anais Nin


All religions will pass; but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov


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