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Imagination Quotes
"A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming."
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"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."
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"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
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"There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination."
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"... so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and of its surroundings, taking their proper shapes and growing solid, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea."
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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
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"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."
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"I could write paper people and I would love them too, I could make them almost real."
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"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world."
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"You always have to defend the imagination against idiots."
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"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."
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"Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds."
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"I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
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"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."
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"And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day."
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"This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good."
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"You know about witches, wizards. You can envision dragons, even if you presently think you are above believing in them. You doubt magic, but you have a word for it. Isn't that a strangeness that wears at you? All these things that you know all about, but you think you are above. Did you used to be able to shape the spell children use to find lost things in the grass? Did you always know to look at the sky, at stars, when you make your wishes? Who taught you the things your soul has always known?"
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"I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth."
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them."
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"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"
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"Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming."
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"You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers," Pris said, "made it up."
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"And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must they must go nuts. I can't imagine that."
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"She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable."
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"Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground."
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
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"...she made her home in between the pages of books."
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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
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"Live with a pure and open heart and mind. Quiet all the rest. Our biggest obstacle was always ourselves. Thoughts that come from a place of love: are never wrong."
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"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
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"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."
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"The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell."
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"It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing."
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"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."
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"Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away."
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
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"Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
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"Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee."
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"The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast."
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
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"He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him."
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"In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight."
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