Imagination Quotes

Plant the seeds of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention.

~ Debasish Mridha

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of ImaginationImagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.

~ William Blake

I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I had - stupidly, embarrassingly - thought of finding Margo, and getting her to come home with me just in time for prom, like late on Saturday night, and we'd walk into the Hilton ballroom wearing jeans and ratty T-shirts, and we'd be just in time for the last dance, and we'd dance while everyone pointed at us and marveled at the return of Margo, and then we'd fox-trot the hell out of there and go get ice cream at Friendly's. So yes, like Ben, I harbored ridiculous prom fantasies. But at least I didn't say mine out loud.

~ John Green

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

~ Debasish Mridha

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

~ Dean Koontz

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

~ L.m. Montgomery

If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

~ Matthew Donnelly

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.

~ Jean-Dominique Bauby

The sandy beach reminded Harold of picnics. And the thought of picnics made him hungry. So he laid out a nice simple picnic lunch. There was nothing but pie. But there were all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best. When Harold finished his picnic there was quite a lot left. He hated to see so much delicious pie go to waste. So Harold left a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine to finish it up.

~ Crockett Johnson

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

~ Lana Wachowski

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

~ Walt Disney Company

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable.

~ T.f. Hodge

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.


~ Sara Sheridan

Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination.

~ Adam Christopher

With newborns becomes new imagination into new wisdom and knowledge.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - Love is blind. But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.

~ Thomas Moore

I'm a naked mind, in a covered body.

~ Sara Keddar

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!

~ T.f. Hodge

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

~ Joseph Joubert

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination.

~ T.f. Hodge

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.

~ Gerald Weaver

But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needles to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation.

~ Virginia Woolf

But it would have been a surprise, not only to Katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needless to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation.

~ Virginia Woolf

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

~ Alice Mcdermott

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

~ James P. Blaylock

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

~ Sakin Maharjan

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

~ H.w. Brands

I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack!

~ Plamen Chetelyazov

I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

~ Michael Soll

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects them as separate and distinct entities called subjects and objects. What disembodied realism ... misses is that, as embodied, imaginative creatures, we never were separated or divorced from reality in the first place. What has always made science possible is our embodiment, not our transcendence of it, and our imagination, not our avoidance of it.

~ George Lakoff

Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

~ Donald L. Hicks

If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.

~ Kishore Bansal

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

~ Edward Rickenbacker