Inspirational daydreaming quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Daydreaming Quotes
But I’m always dreaming, even when I’m awake; it is never finished. – Peter S. Beagle
One man’s daydreaming is another man’s day. – Terri Guillemets
Ah, the things we would do if we could especially in the secure knowledge that we can’t. – Robert Brault
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation. – John Howe
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. – Luis Buñuel
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
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. – Neil Gaiman
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Television is simply automated daydreaming. – Lee Loevinger
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. – Victor Hugo
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets. – W. H. Auden
Don’t quit your daydream. – Author Unknown
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke
Daydreaming is okay, even better if you can make some lasting memory out of it. – Leslie Dean Brown
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, absentmindedly and with little relish. – W.H. Auden
A story in your head isn’t a story. It’s just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down. – Andy Weir
Dreams grow wild in the daydreamers soul. – Terri Guillemets
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! – Logan Pearsall Smith
I am thankful for my dream that elusive butterfly I have chased all my life and thankful that it was elusive enough to last a lifetime. – Robert Brault
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways. – Erik Qualman
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anaïs Nin
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. – Steven Wright
To lose one’s self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. – Antoine Rivarol
They say there’s no harm in daydreaming, but there is. – Charlaine Harris
If you don’t daydream your life is a nightmare. – Karl Lagerfeld
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. – V.V. Rozanov
Everything starts as somebody’s daydream. – Larry Niven
People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. – Gaston Bachelard
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have. – Julie Garwood
I am afraid I have done sadly too much sitting and dreaming since I have been up. – James Ward
We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams. – Kilroy J. Oldster
If you’ve never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. – Adam Duritz
Day dreaming is actually research for the next book. – Val Richards
Under every full moon, a wool gathering world idles. – Lorraine Skylark
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
If not interrupted, an INFJ can stay in a fantasy-trance for hours. – Terri Guillemets
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. – Michael Pollan
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. – Henry David Thoreau
