Imagination Quotes

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

~ John Steinbeck

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Hate is a lack of imagination.

~ Graham Greene

Imagination means nothing without doing.

~ Charlie Chaplin

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

~ Bill Hicks

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

~ L.m. Montgomery

She always wanted to believe in things.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

~ Ray Bradbury

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

~ Brian Andreas

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

~ J.k. Rowling

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

~ John Keats

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

~ Lynda Barry

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

~ Paulo Coelho

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.

~ Terence Mckenna

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

~ Margaret Atwood

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

~ Lauren Bacall

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all, it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

~ Philip Pullman

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

~ Emily Dickinson

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

~ Pearl S. Buck

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

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

~ G.k. Chesterton

...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

~ L.m. Montgomery

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

~ Graham Greene

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

~ L.m. Montgomery

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.

~ Oscar Wilde

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

~ J.r. Ward

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

~ Anna Godbersen

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

~ Haruki Murakami

When you're feeling lonelyand no one is aroundRemember to look inside yourselfand a best friend will be found

~ Stephen Cosgrove

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

~ Harper Lee

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

~ Carson Mccullers

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

~ J.k. Rowling

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

~ Tom Stoppard

A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell to the ground. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself. The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The crunching sound rattled his bones. He looked around at the other openings. On all four sides of the Glade, the right walls were moving toward the left, closing the gap of the Doors. Then one final boom rumbled across the Glade as all four Doors sealed shut for the night.

~ James Dashner

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

~ Jasper Fforde

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

~ L.m. Montgomery

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

~ Saul Bellow