Imagination Quotes

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

~ Emmuska Orczy

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

~ J.k. Rowling

Write it down and it will come alive.

~ Efrat Israeli

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live.

~ Shannon Leto

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night – and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day.

~ Carla H. Krueger

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

~ Ronald Reagan

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

~ William Hurrell Mallock

Radio was theater of the mind.

~ Ronald Reagan

The only limit on your dreams is your imagination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.

~ Carla H. Krueger

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

~ Brian Wildsmith

Your imagination will take you to places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

~ Helen Keller

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

~ Abraham Hicks

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

~ Simon Callow

The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.

~ Allie Burke

What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our days -- not just the showgirl, the femme fatale, and the ingenue, but all the memories and dreams of the taller, meaner, sharper, sweeter, softer people we have been or long to be.

~ Alyssa Harad

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

~ Khaled Talib

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

~ K. Lamb

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

~ Charles Simic

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

~ Carmela Dutra

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

~ Marcel Proust

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

~ Lauren Cagliola Green

I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper...

~ Jamie Edson

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

~ Ryan Lilly

Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.

~ K. Lamb

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

~ Tom Boellstorff

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend... He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

~ Lauren Cagliola Green

The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!

~ Carl Painter

Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

~ K. Lamb

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

~ Frida Kahlo

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

~ Terry Pratchett

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

~ Tom Robbins

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

~ Graham Greene

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.

~ Virginia Woolf