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Imagination Quotes
"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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"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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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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"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."
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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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"Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds."
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"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."
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"Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
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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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"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
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"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
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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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"You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams."
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"Windows open out onto the universe around you, but doors will take you to where your imagination lies."
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"If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off."
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"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
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"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
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"Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn."
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"Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you."
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"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."
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"The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions."
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"We travel with our thoughts to great lands."
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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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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
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"I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth."
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"As a child I would play with such imagination that the 'real' world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility."
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"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."
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"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
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"Thoughts are powerful, one thinking for something makes big changes... you try... Imagine this say "I want to fuck", then imaginate a girl. A woman which is 18 years old, blonde hair, white skin, big ass, big boobs, long legs, and likes to play with dicks... Think few times on such type of stuff and look the magic!"
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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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"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
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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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"She has no imagination and that means no compassion."
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"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
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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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"In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know."
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"She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination."
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"Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning."
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"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future."
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"To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves."
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"One man's fantasy is another man's reality!"
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