top of page
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy

"It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin."

Standard 
 Customized
"It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin."

Exlpore more Imagination quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind?"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You are only limited by your imagination."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"...she made her home in between the pages of books."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Hardy

Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."
Quote_1.png
Thomas Hardy
"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
bottom of page