Quotes about reverie

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

— William Ellery Channing

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

— John Locke

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Charles Simmons

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

— William Wordsworth