76+ Best Daydreaming Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Realistic daydreams, on the other hand, show us what might actually be possible for our lives. Inspirational daydreaming quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Daydreaming Quotes

Lying in bed and daydreaming was the best thing I did all day. Marty Rubin

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Ian McEwan

If you ever catch me daydream, please, don’t wake me up. Mandy K.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. Rob Liano

They say there’s no harm in daydreaming, but there is. Charlaine Harris

She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right. Shannon A. Thompson

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

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. Alexandre Dumas

Is daydreaming a distraction from work, or work a distraction from daydreaming? Marty Rubin

She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else. Rainbow Rowell Eleanor

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return. Ian McEwan

There are certain half dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. Washington Irving

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett

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

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming. Richelle E. Goodrich

How do you smuggle daydreams into reality? David Mitchell

One man’s daydreaming is another man’s day. Terri Guillemets

Her legs swing complete afternoons away. Jill Eisenstadt

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity. Deepak Chopra

Lying in bed and daydreaming was the best thing I did all day. Marty Rubin

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. Gaston Bachelard

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was. Zora Neale Hurston

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming. Eda LeShan

The more he withdrew from the world around him, the more wonderful became his dreams. H.P. Lovecraft

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

It’s foolish to let my thoughts wander this way, he said, drawing himself up, but daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty. Joris Karl Huysmans

It’s really splendid to imagine you are a queen. You have all the fun of it without any of the inconveniences and you can stop being a queen whenever you want to, which you couldn’t in real life. Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. Kurt Vonnegut

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

I’m often daydreaming, and it’s because I’ve always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world. Samantha Shannon

Daydreaming is free, but you have to pay for everything else. Marty Rubin

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.” Mark Waters

A dream is a short trip into the mind’s museum. Michael Bassey Johnson

Like everyone, appearing smart during meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon. Sarah Cooper

But she wasn’t trying to be a diva, she was just a young mer whose head was full of fantasies. Liz Braswell

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain. Tony Buzan

In my head, this world is so much more beautiful. If you ever catch me daydream, please, don’t wake me up. Mandy K.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. Albert Einstein

We seek to escape the dark cave of a despondent mind by either dulling oneself mentally or through imaginative acts. One form of escapism is daydreaming. Kilroy J. Oldster

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane. Florence Welch

For years I’d been an expert at longing, an expert at loving from the state of not quite having, an expert at daydreaming and sinking back into the plush furniture of cinematic imagining. Leslie Jamison

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

The quiet is dangerous for the mind. When left to wander, it can convince you of anything. P.S. Fischbach

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation. John Howe

People are often daydreamers which is why when you see something strange on your way, you must thank to it because it liberates you from the world of dreams by waking you up! Welcome to the world of reality, welcome to this very moment we are in! Mehmet Murat ildan

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself? Gordon Lightfoot

Books were made for healing and learning and growing and completely removing yourself from real life and plopping down into a fantasy world. Nash Summers

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery. Daniel Goleman

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

Without daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others. Michael Pollan

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

Prepare while others are daydreaming. William Arthur Ward

She found herself imagining them hanging out in the backyard having barbecues and sitting together on the swing. The idea made her smile, although she kept it to herself. Jason Medina

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. Jim Sorensen

Man, you look like you’ve never seen a gas station before! You zone out so much sometimes, it’s like you’re going to another world! Aspen Kendrick

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear. Christian Dior

And some days constipated thoughts clog the day. Richard L. Ratliff

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. Francis Bacon

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. Goodric

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? W. Somerset Maugham

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane. Florence Welch

Let yourself daydream sometimes. Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self. Nita Leland

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams. Kilroy J. Oldster

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people’s time that I wonder if we’ve lost the ability to daydream. Patti Smith

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales. Dr. Seuss

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. Sigmund Freud

Well, if one’s going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don’t you suppose? Danielle Paig

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

Every Daydream hope starts with little incentives! Nikhil Karke

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. Ernest Holmes

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett

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

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake. Eudora Welty