Quotes About Imagination

The place is not good for the imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night.

When it comes to horror, I always prefer the nebulous & the implied to the physical & the described.

Besides, he added, my constant talk about "unnamable" and "unmentionable" things was a very puerile device, quite in keeping with my lowly standing as an author. I was too fond of ending my stories with sights or sounds which paralysed my heroes' faculties and left them without courage, words, or associations to tell what they had experienced.

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal;

Devils so work that things which are not appear to men as if they were real.

De modo que el buscador de paraísos no es mas que una víctima de mitos establecidos o de su propia imaginación.

La mia sbrigliata immaginazione credette di vedere, allo stesso tempo, una piovra, un drago e una caricatura umana. Aveva una testa rotonda, irta di tentacoli e posta su di un corpo grottesco e squamoso, da cui spuntavano due ali rudimentali: e c'era qualcosa, in quell'insieme, che rendeva la figura quanto mai spaventosa e ripugnante.

Well, I should say that the really weird artist has a kind of vision which makes models, or summons up what amounts to actual scenes from the spectral world he lives in.

It is man's relation to the cosmos—to the unknown—which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. . . . —H. P. LOVECRAFT2

Hoje em dia, com o nosso planeta tão convulsionado pelas hostilidades absurdas da humanidade insignificante, é tranquilizador voltar-se para o azul etéreo e contemplar outros mundos, cada um com fenômenos únicos e pitorescos, onde nenhum eco de conflitos ou sofrimentos humanos ressoa.

Ever new seemed this deathless city of vision, for here time has no power to tarnish or destroy.

And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much

And I would tell myself that the realm beyond the wall was not more lasting merely, but more lovely and radiant as well.

O quanto mais se afastava do mundo ao redor, mais exuberantes tornavam-se os sonhos;

Kuranes was not modern, and did not think like others who wrote. Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that is reality, Kuranes sought for beauty alone.1 When truth and experience failed to reveal it, he sought it in fancy and illusion, and found it on his very doorstep, amid the nebulous memories of childhood tales and dreams.

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

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world's people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It's much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.

Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent