Imagination Quotes

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always Stick 'em up! In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

~ A.s. Neill

The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul?

~ Matthew Donnelly

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

~ A.s. Neill

Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before.

~ Debasish Mridha

We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy.

~ Stephen King

Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it's so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isn't going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring

~ Sue Perkins

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

~ Ransom Riggs

Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded--that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures--that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.

~ Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

~ Renata Bowers

Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. We'd fashioned an outpost in the hostile, inaccessible world of the imagination, like dangling a bathysphere into the crushing dark of the deep ocean, a realm hitherto inaccessible to humankind. This is what games had become. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. We'd done that, taken that idea and turned it into a thing its creators never imagined, our own incandescent mythology.

~ Austin Grossman

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

~ Rachel Hore

He imagines the water running in thick curving lines, like the drawings of the tree’s roots, cutting through stone and spilling over the earth. And then he reverses the flow of water, letting his imagination take over, and he sees the water racing north, uphill, towards the Catskills, weaving around towns, beneath bridges, rushing over stones and cutting through the trees, until it lands at the feet of Alice Pearson, who stands on the shore, looking out at the place where the water meets the sky.

~ Beth Hahn

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

~ Bill Plotkin

Open your eyes, you will see the greatness of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

~ S.a. Tawks

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

~ S.a. Tawks

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

~ S.a. Tawks

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

~ S.a. Tawks

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

~ S.a. Tawks

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

~ S.a. Tawks

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

~ S.a. Tawks

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

~ S.a. Tawks

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

~ S.a. Tawks

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

~ S.a. Tawks

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

~ S.a. Tawks

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

~ S.a. Tawks

Don't dare try to be heroes.

~ S.a. Tawks

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

~ S.a. Tawks

New exit, new entry!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....

~ Christopher Moore

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

~ S.a. Tawks

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

~ S.a. Tawks

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...

~ Christopher Moore