Day Dreaming Quotes

#1. In Kafka's story "Wedding Preparations in the Country," Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.

Franz Kafka

#2. I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

Demetri Martin

#3. If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

Val Richards

#5. Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.

Steve Maraboli

#6. To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

Washington Irving

#7. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Gaston Bachelard

#8. The difference between wisdom and foolishness lies within our dreams. To spend all day dreaming, instead of working to reach our dreams is pointless.

Jose N. Harris

#9. Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Francis Spufford

#10. I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

#11. I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Nick Park

#12. Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.

Nico Rosberg

#13. Shoes, then, sliding me across the floor to greet the day. Dreaming of coffee. I'm afraid I didn't miss the physical presence of my husband in his absences as much as I missed coffee.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness ... , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference ... that was only ... pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.

Hermann Hesse

#16. [I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

James Black

#17. I thought if I created some distance, maybe I wouldn't want you to touch me so badly. Maybe I could come to work today and not sit at my desk all day dreaming about every wicked thing I want your hands to do to me

Mari Carr

#18. What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence.

Gaston Bachelard

#19. One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise - one of my favorites.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#20. I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality ...

Will.i.am

#21. I spent hours dreaming of the sunshine, the way it soaked into the city walls and made the yellow stones hot to lean on hours after the day had ended

Megan Whalen Turner

#22. This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.

William Henry Hudson

#23. Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

Baz Luhrmann

#24. Every day you live is a day for dreaming.
Every day is a day for adventuring.
And every day is for sharing with people you love,
because love's all that lasts.
It's the only thing we carry out of this world.
It connects us all, in the end.

Natalie Lloyd

#25. Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.

Dolly Parton

#26. Each day a new world
opens itself to you. And all the worlds you are -
..................
gather into one world
called You
where You decide
what each world
and each story
and each ending
will finally be.

Jaqueline Woodson

#27. Always remember, no matter what life throws at you, never forget your dreams because the day you stop dreaming, you've officially became the average mother fucker.

Jasmine Ciera

#28. Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. The dreaming world, they'd think we were crazy. Those people still in bed, they'd be asleep another hour, then washing their faces, under their arms, and between their legs, before going to the same work they did every day. Living that same life, every day.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then ... one day ... I got in!

Jeff Bridges

#31. And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

Shaun Hick

#32. The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

Mark Batterson

#33. I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

LaToya Jackson

#34. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

#35. I had a dream about you. It happened during the day. You used a pencil to erase the ink I wrote over the chalkboard since the professor told me 7 + 4 didn't equal 10. You were really cool about it; in fact, you handed me a bucket of ice. Apparently I needed to chill out.

Melody Sohayegh

#36. Dream too much,but keep dreaming of big one.this one will be your success story one day.

Mohammed Sekouty

#37. Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Siri Hustvedt

#38. I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!

Alison Brie

#39. Live your dream. Never stop dreaming. There are supernatural forces to support your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Stephen King

#41. One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#42. Sublime wonders lie in store,
I am shown a regal residence;
a mighty kingdom, an empire
with more grandeur than before ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#43. A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don't also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

Roman Payne

#44. I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.

Floyd Norman

#45. My only remained wish is just to get my belly full twice a day with some love desserts & without any worries in my mind, But still if it looks I'm dreaming something big, Then it would just be two meals a day with some love, & I'l handle those worries.

Abhijeet Singh

#46. Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.

Mandy Hale

#47. Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Leon Redbone

#48. I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

Rodney Jenkins

#49. I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour..
... On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden ...

Fernando Pessoa

#50. I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say,
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.

Thomas Hood

#51. Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

Norman Vincent Peale

#52. I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Brit Marling

#53. I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

Harvey Keitel

#54. There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.

John Okada

#55. Never ever stop dreaming. You will make it big one day. What is life without our struggles? Our struggles give us insight and depth into life.

Avijeet Das

#56. When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace.

Harold Kemp

#57. I dream big dreams every day; it's up to the universe to keep up.

David DuChemin

#58. The day you stop dreaming you might as well take yourself down to the undertaker's, for you're as good as dead.

Jennifer Donnelly

#59. Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

#60. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.

Dora J. Arod

#61. Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.

Auliq Ice

#62. Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from ... from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary)
(Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.)
Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

#64. We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.

Brian Herbert

#65. I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I had to pinch myself, because I figured either I was dreaming or else I'd died and gone to heaven - which given my history was probably not where I'd end up.

Carolee Dean

#66. As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Haruki Murakami

#67. From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Brett Eldredge

#68. Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#69. I can make you mine,
taste your lips of wine,
anytime night or day,
only trouble is,
gee wiz,
I'm dreaming my life away...

The Everly Brothers

#70. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

Elie Wiesel

#71. I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Roy Haynes

#72. Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.

Judy Blume

#73. Come to my reality, but day or night, don't make me stop dreaming.

Nico J. Genes

#74. I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.

Taylor Swift

#75. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Walter Moers

#76. Long live the dreamer inside of me.

Nikki Rowe

#77. Memory, prophecy, and fantasy - The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between - Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

Clive Barker

#78. A day doesn't go by without me dreaming of your smile and your beautiful love

My heart aches everyday that goes by when your not at my side

It's a bittersweet feeling, because as long as I have tomorrow then I will always have a second chance at making you smile

Austin V. Songer

#79. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery

#80. The day I stop dreaming is the day I die.

Soichiro Honda

#81. When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.

Shannon L. Alder

#82. I know it will not happen in one day. I also know that it is definitely going to happen one day.

Manoj Arora

#83. All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.

Kim Edwards

#84. Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Haruki Murakami

#85. Dangerous dreams are daydreaming.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Mark Batterson

#87. There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition.

Steve Ross

#88. The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#89. I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Steven Spielberg

#90. The day you stop dreaming you will loose your wings

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