Quotes About Imagination

Bücher liegen in der Luft. Der Schriftsteller ist nur die Brücke zwischen dem Stoff und der Niederschrift.

I understand, but I've come back from a long journey and now I'm resting. I never much like thinking of the future and today, when I'm resting, even less: that's why I am so bad at explaining to you how it is I can put up with my life as it is and not change it, and what is more, not even be able to imagine changing. I'm sorry.

Dans l'ombre de ces villas, elles se regardent pour plus tard, elles croient vivre un roman, elles ont déjà les longues penderies pleines de robes à ne savoir qu'en faire, collectionnées comme le temps, la longue suite des jours d'attente.

Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

Mucho me costaría vivir en un mundo sin libros pero la realidad no está en ellos, puesto que no cabe entera.

Bardzo ?le czu?bym si? w ?wiecie bez ksi??ek, ale rzeczywisto?ci w ksi??kach nie ma, bo si? w nich w ca?o?ci nie mie?ci.

Adaptar-me-ia dificilmente a um mundo sem livros, mas a realidade não está ali, porque eles não a contêm inteira.

Langzamerhand, zoals in alle processen waarvoor de nieuwsgierigen een poos lang warmlopen, zag men hoe zich op twee verschillende plannen twee wonderlijk ongelijksoortige zaken aftekenden: het geval zoals het zich presenteert voor de rechtsgeleerden en de geestelijken wier taak het is te berechten, en het geval zoals het wordt gefantaseerd door de massa die monsters en slachtoffers wil.

He has left the world of facts to enter that of illusions, and sometimes I think that an illusion is perhaps the shape that the innermost secret realities take in the mind's eye of common folk.

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. Half a mile. Fifty yards. Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say Thirty-six C. Or Let's try it in the next size up. But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

there is no bogeyman,' Craig said confidently. 'Mummy said.' Ted reconsidered. Surely something must scare him? Ok, if you don't go to sleep, Mick Hucknall will come and get you.' 'What's that?' 'I'll show you.' Ted nipped downstairs, grabbed the CD and ran back up. ...

imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

A story, no matter how factually true, is still just a story.

Marianne Williamson

Basta imaginar lo que sería el mundo si nos viéramos unos a otros y pensáramos, "¡Sé que hay algo maravilloso ahí dentro!

Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real, and the real seems unreal.

El miedo es una ilusión, un delirio. Nuestra locura, nuestra paranoia, nuestra angustia y nuestros traumas son imaginarios.

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

We can imagine a world at peace, a planet healed, and all sentient beings happy.

Bara människor utan visioner flyr in i verkligheten.