Imagination Quotes

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

~ Jodine Turner

To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?

~ Anna Jae

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

~ Shane Claiborne

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on their blackness so real and vivid in its details that I could almost for a moment think that I had triumphed o'er the Past, and that my spirit's eyes had pierced the mystery of Time.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Writing opens the door to imagination.

~ Joe Evener

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

~ Kurban Said

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

~ Dan Sanders

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

~ Mark Dery

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

~ Niall Ferguson

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

~ H.l. Stephens

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.

~ Fernando Pessoa

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

~ Haruki Murakami

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

~ Annie Dillard

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

~ Aurora Whittet

Drop down all those imaginations and feelings that Success is built on Success. A HERO can be built from ZERO. Begin from where you stand with what you have!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.

~ C.s. Richardson

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

~ Meg Rosoff

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

~ Criss Jami

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

~ James C. Emlund

I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Keep a clear picture of your goals in mind.The power of imagination is unlimited.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything you can imagine,is real.

~ Sujayendra

I didn’t think you were real for a long time,” I confess. “I thought you were someone I’d dreamed up.”“A dream worth reliving every night for ten years?” he asks, chuckling and slowly loosening his hold.“For eternity,” I whisper, winding my arms around his neck to keep him close.“Good.” He leans down and brushes his lips against mine. “That is exactly how long I plan on keeping you.

~ Erica Cameron

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

~ L.m. Montgomery

The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you’re networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

~ Ryan Lilly

Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented. I feel as if I've wandered into a labyrinth. Has that ever happened to you?

~ Haruki Murakami

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

~ Criss Jami

I believe in the power of imagination. I believe in the unexplained possibilities of the spirit. And I believe that the heart, like any other muscle, grows stiff if it is not exercised regularly.I believe.

~ Eve Zibart

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story.

~ Pat Conroy

I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish to see ended? How many christenings, weddings, and funerals? Same thing with a record, I guess. Who bought it? Did they ever make love while it was playing? How many times did they read the notes in the cover? Did a song on the album change their life? I suppose it's odd to think about things like that.

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different realities.

~ Joan Lindsay

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!

~ William Crookes

Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.

~ Dionne Brand

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

~ K. Lamb

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work—and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

~ Donald J. Cram

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

~ Jorge Luis Borges