Daydreaming Quotes

“What's the worth of sadness in front of happiness?
Like a leaf that's blown away by the wind.
What's the worth of despair in front of hope?
Like a dirty stone that's thrown in a clean pond.
What's the worth of chaos in front of peace?
Like a flying kite that's string has been cut down.
What's the worth of disunion in front of the union?
Like a fish that's breathing but not in water.”
― Hareem Ch, Hankering for Tranquility

“The more he withdrew from the world around him, the more wonderful became his dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“I don't know the world, I don't even know myself. I'm forever daydreaming and often can't tell dreams from reality.”
― Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders

“She loves her lonely moments, the silence away from the crowds. When it's just her daydreaming.”
― Marie-Kristin Hofmann, Remember the wild girl

“It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles our
daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.”
― Steven D. Katz, Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen

“Some days are better than others, but every day can be the best day of your life by giving thanks.”
― Richie Norton

“The quiet is dangerous for the mind. When left to wander, it can convince you of anything.”
― P.S. Fischbach, Your Secret Became Mine

“Read. Dream. Repeat.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“A dream is a short trip into the mind’s museum.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Ever since I could remember, I had feared being found wanting. If I did the work I wanted to do, it was certain not to measure up; if I pursued the people I wanted to know, I was bound to be rejected; if I made myself as attractive as I could, I would still be ordinary looking. Around such damages to the ego a shrinking psyche had formed: I applied myself to my work, but only grudgingly; I’d make one move toward people I liked, but never two; I wore makeup but dressed badly. To do any or all of these things well would have been to engage heedlessly with life — love it more than I loved my fears — and this I could not do. What I could do, apparently, was daydream the years away: to go on yearning for “things” to be different so that I would be different.”
― Vivian Gornick

“Some car accidents are caused by the ignorance or disbelief of the fact that a driver’s eyes and mind can be thousands of kilometres apart.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My daydreams never let me down (217).”
― Linda Murphy Marshall, Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

“I have dreamed something entirely pretend with my eyes wide open. The sweet wonder of it makes me smile. I believe in the emotions implanted by dreams, for they are not pretend, and they will never cease to bloom.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“The little girl spent most of her hours of leisure in the branches. When her family did not know where to find her, they would go to the trees, the tall beech to start with, the one that stood to the north above the lean-to, for that was where she liked to daydream”
― Muriel Barbery, The Life of Elves

“There is no better place to indulge in endless daydreams than sitting by a campfire!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She had purchased for herself a blotting-case, stationery, a penholder and some envelopes, although she had no one to write to; she wiped the dust off her shelves, looked at herself in the mirror, took down a book, then, dreaming between the lines, let it fall in her lap. She had a desire to travel, or to go back and live at her convent. She wished both to die and to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I pictured Locke's heart shot through with an arrow and then shook my head to get rid of the image. It wasn't like me to think things like that.

It especially wasn't like me to have a brief jolt of satisfaction from it.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Meninggalkan atau ditinggalkan itu sama, sama sama akan pergi dan jarang utk kembali.”
― hermawandae

“Stop daydreaming about success and start preparing yourself both mentally and physically to be successful.”
― EBINEZAR GNANASEKARAN

“The mind does some of its best wandering when the body’s moving forward. This is true on a bike, or on foot, or on a plane, train, or in an automobile, anything. There’s just something about steady onward motion that’s uniquely conducive to shedding any hang-ups and inviting real mental latitude. And, it seems, conversely, the mind is best at plunging forward, at submitting itself to something and following a fixed path, when the body is stationary. In a quiet room between sixty-eight and seventy-four degrees, wearing clothes that are snug but comfortable, sitting upright. Free of any distraction. Unlike out here, the room has no exigencies, so the mind makes up its own. Work, it says. Or watch, read. Dedicate me to something specific. A mind narrows in on that thing then moves resolutely toward it, doing its best to ward off anything that might interrupt or alter its course; thought is a train, consciousness a stream…”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Since so much of good science- and perhaps all of great science- has its roots in fantasy, I suggest that you yourself engage in a bit right now. Where would you like to be, what would you like to be doing professionally ten years from now, twenty, fifty? Next, imagine that you are much older and looking back at a successful career. What kind of great discovery, and in what field of science, would you savor most having made?

I recommend creating scenarios that end with goals, then choosing ones you wish to pursue. Make it a practice to indulge in fantasy about science. Make it more than just an occasional exercise. Daydream a lot. Make talking to yourself silently a relaxing pastime. Give lectures to yourself about important topics that you need to understand. Talk with others of like mind. By their dreams you shall know them.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist

“Laila sat on the edge of the stream, dipping her feet into the cool water. Overhead, mosquitos hummed and cottonwood seeds danced. A dragonfly whirred nearby, Laila watched its wings catch glints of sunlight as it buzzed from one blade of grass to another. They flashed purple, then green, orange...
Laila thought again about Babi's little dream. *Somewhere near the sea*.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Mouth the shape of a kiss
I question if within you is any magic
You shine, you catch on fire, you disappear.”
― Lea Malot, Lilith

“In a world crowded with the white noise of other people's narratives -- the collective narrative of social media; the multi-strand narratives of binge TV -- having your own, singular, internal narrative is nothing short of essential.”
― Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

“The languid afternoon. Insects,
droning on into the night. Charon lies
at the bottom of his rowboat,
thinking about his life.”
― Greg Rappleye

“But she wasn't trying to be a diva, she was just a young mer whose head was full of fantasies.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“Your father even wrote the first theories about daytime dreaming in this library." She smiles at Albert, a look of pride. "He invented daydreams, you know," she says, looking back to me. "A way for humans to dream up wild, unthinkable things right in the middle of the afternoon, without ever needing to go to sleep."
I think back to my own daydreams, moments when I'd managed to lose myself in thought, especially in my old life: dreaming of a future with Jack, dreaming of who I might be if I ever escaped Dr. Finkelstein.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

“Daydreaming about something that can never be a reality is foolish.”
― Judy Harrington, Frozen Secrets

“Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good.”
― Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

“Defying my childhood teachers by making a career out of daydreaming, coloring outside the lines, and making people laugh out loud.”
― Daisy Dexter Dobbs