QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON REVERIE

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)

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

John Locke (1632-1704, British philosopher)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)

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

Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801, French journalist, epigrammatist)

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Charles Simmons

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)

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