Everie Quotes

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

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. - Victor Hugo

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

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie. - Edward Jenner

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

Seeke out ye goode in everie man, and speke of alle the beste ye can; then wil alle men speke wel of thee and say how kynde of hearte ye bee. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

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