Daydreaming Quotes - Page 9

• Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Devil, Delusion

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• One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

  Robin McKinley

  Pain, Memories, Ease

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Outlaws of Sherwood”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

  Stephen Chbosky

  Night, Vegas, White

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Twilight, Honor

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Men, Imagination, Suffering

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (2006). “Niels Lyhne”, p.60, Penguin

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• I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night

  Simone Elkeles

  Morning, Fall, School

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2016

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• Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Iron, Hammers

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• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Rooms, Messed Up, Sections

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.69, Vintage

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• Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Advice, Comfort

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

  Lauren Willig

  Reality, Men, Perfect

  Lauren Willig (2007). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.112, Penguin

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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Ironic

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

  Tim O'Brien

  Wall, Forever, Wish

  Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is, of course, a silly one, but I can give it a silly answer. Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover I don’t want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each other’s existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every author.

  W. H. Auden

  Silly, Book, Passion

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• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

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• A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts.

  John Dos Passos

  Ice Cream, People, Intellectual

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

  Thomas Merton

  Distance, Loss, Discovery

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.45, Macmillan

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• What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Meditation, Body

  Edgar Cayce (1987). “Face to Face: 12 Edgar Cayce Readings Interpreted for Today”, A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlightenment)

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• On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Summer, Blue, Wind

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Sensation”

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• The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

  Steven Furtick

  Differences, Vision, Audacity

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• The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

  Paul MacCready

  School, Ideas, People

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