Quotes About Imagination

I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.

I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

I busied myself to think of a story, —a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors

Happy are dreamers, he continued, so that they be not awakened! Would I could dream!

I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. I

La invención consiste en la capacidad para captar las posibilidades de un objeto y en el poder para moldear y revestir las ideas que sugiere.

Me encantaba investigar lo que ocurría en el mundo... ella prefería ocuparse en perseguir las etéreas creaciones de los poetas. El mundo era para mí un secreto que deseaba desvelar... para ella era un espacio que deseaba poblar con sus propias imaginaciones.

Inventar, deve-se admitir humildemente, não consiste em criar algo do nada, mas sim do caos.

In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?

I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.

What I wrote was intended at least for one other eye - my childhood's companion and friend; but my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest when pleasure when free.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Prepare to hear of occurrences which are usually deemed marvellous.

There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men.

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. It

She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.

He [Shelley] told me that he had had many visions lately; he had seen the figure of himself, which met him as he walked on the terrace and said to him, 'How long do you mean to be content?

Pero mis sueños eran sólo míos; no permitía que nadie entrara en ellos; eran mi refugio en el hastió y el placer más querido en la alegría.

La vida y la muerte se habían convertido para mí en fronteras imaginarias y yo sería el primero en romperlas, solo con el fin de echar un torrente de luz en nuestro tenebroso mundo. Una nueva especie podría bendecirme como a su creador.