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Read our best and famous daydreaming quotes and sayings from renowned authors, thinkers, and philosophers to overcome this dreadful habit of our minds.
There are basically two reasons why people love daydreaming. Either they think they will live forever and keep wasting current time and energy.
Or they don’t like the present daily reality, so they love to get lost in thoughts of their own fantasy.
But whatever is the reason, do not fall into this self-obsessed and pleasurable activity of the mind that robs you from living authentically.
It will cut you off further from reality and doesn’t allow you to live in a deep and enriching way. An imaginary world cannot replace life throbbing in the now.
Henry David Thoreau quotes powerfully to all the lousy daydreamers, ‘ Daydream if you have built castles in the air, that is where they should be; now put foundations under them.’
Equally, Buddha wisely reminds us, ‘ The trouble is, you think you have time.’
When we deeply realize that ‘ time’ is slipping by and life is too short to waste in a dreamy world, we will not want to waste a minute of it in any unworthy, petty, and useless thoughts.
Life is always in the ‘now’; involve in a meaningful life, and be fully immersed in a higher purpose that fills your heart.
Then we will have no mental space left for daydreaming, which is nothing but unnecessary noise of mind to time pass an otherwise dull life.
We hope these inspiring stop daydreaming quotes collections help you find a real purpose in life and make life interesting and exciting.
Best Daydreaming Quotes and Sayings
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.
– Erik Qualman
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
– Steven Wright
They say there’s no harm in daydreaming, but there is.
– Charlaine Harris
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
– Julie Garwood
We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.
– Kilroy J. Oldster
Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.
– Val Richards
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
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
– Michael Pollan
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
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
She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.
– Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park
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
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
I doze and daydream. I think about my life. I don’t know what I did wrong. I’d feel better if I did.
– Robert K. Massie
You’re daydreamers instead of go-getters. In a way, you’ve got to be crazy. You’re not satisfied to live with flying – you’ve got to be in love with it.
– Frank Wead
Lying in bed and daydreaming was the best thing I did all day.
– Marty Rubin
Is daydreaming a distraction from work, or work a distraction from daydreaming?
– Marty Rubin
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
In my head, this world is so much more beautiful. If you ever catch me daydream, please, don’t wake me up.
– Mandy K
Daydreams are cool alright. Daydreams are nice, especially the ones about food.
– Doug Walker
Do you ever daydream? I do. That’s the only time I’m really happy. Dreaming.
– Charles Chaplin
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there any danger of their coming true.
– Logan P. Smith
Vision without execution is a daydream. Execution without vision is a nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb
We are lost in the daydream landscapes we have created in our minds.
– David Nichtern
Your greatness lies in your daydreams. But they are great only to the extent to which they inspire you to work and strive towards them. When they do, you will find that you are wiser and happier than you have ever been.
– Robert O’Brien
Daydream if you have built castles in the air, that is where they should be; now put foundations under them.
– Henry David Thoreau
Daydreaming or conscious fantasy seems most likely to occur under conditions relatively similar to those of night dreaming.
– Jerome L. Singer
Since daydreams are so often visual, the movies are especially effective in capturing their quality.
– Jerome L. Singer
It is a basic human pastime to daydream, in the sense of entertaining conscious and private fictions.
– M. Regis
Daydreams are private fictions; few are wiling to submit their fantasies.
– M. Regis
Daydreams are very common and yet they remain theoretically elusive.
– M. Regis
One knows that a daydream is not real. It is not confused with present reality.
– Teresa Brennan
Visionaries of every sort credit daydreams for creating conditions ripe for moments of insight to blossom.
– Amy Fries
The beauty of daydreaming is that it’s a process available to everyone of us.
– Amy Fries
The uncensored aspect of daydreaming is also priceless in that it gives us both the means and the freedom to explore, without an internal critic hovering over us.
– Amy Fries
What happens in your daydreams, stays in your daydreams, unless you choose to share.
– Amy Fries
Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought.
– Michael Pollan
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
– John Howe
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets.
– W. H. Auden
Daydreaming is okay, even better if you can make some lasting memory out of it.
– Leslie Dean Brown
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
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