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Imagination Quotes
"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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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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"Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael"
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"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."
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"I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another."
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"Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy..."
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"I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything."
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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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"You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages."
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"At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid."
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"Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena."
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"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
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"Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark."
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"It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are."
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"My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie...."
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"Reality cannot breathe without imagination."
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"Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me nowto remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, halffancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it wasfolded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I wascomparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise."
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"I survive on moments of make-believe happiness."
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"The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that."
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"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."
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"I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food."
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"The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction."
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"In everyone's life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don't have that line."
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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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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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"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."
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"I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do..."
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"Imagined happiness is still happiness."
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"We travel with our thoughts to great lands."
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"My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations."
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"Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amphibious men and women, adapting themselves each evening to living in an element different from their daytime one, swam about slowly in the dense liquid which at nightfall rises incessantly from the wells of lamps and fills the rooms to the brink of their walls of stone and glass, and as they moved about in it, their bodies sent forth unctuous golden ripples."
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"As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door."
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"I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made of grey and pink canvas that flapped in the gusts of storm wind, in that orange sky: a lopsided canvas structure aged by weather and ripped by time. And then it turned and I saw its face..."
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"Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined."
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"If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses."
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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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"Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language."
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"We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee."
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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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"Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them."
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"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."
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"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love."
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"Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on."
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"Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while."
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"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
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"How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly it would be if the nights were tan and the mornings green and the sun cyan!How totally ridiculous if horses chirped and spiders sang and ladies burped!How shocking it would be if the dragons ruled and the knights were daft but the fish were schooled!How utterly preposterous if rain were dry and snowflakes warm and real men cried!I love to just imagineall the lows as heights,and the salty, sweet,and our lefts as rights.Perhaps it is incredibleand off the hook,but it all makes sensein a storybook!"
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"But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe."
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"To masturbate is to imagine: physically."
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"I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God's infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God's image."
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