Quotes About Imagination

Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Winter is for dreaming

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I'm not a pirate, and she's not my captured princess.

Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring, real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. "Imaginative literature," therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

Once it becomes an idea, then it's possible.

Our dreams only die when we stop dreaming.

Our search for others might be of success, if we are going to go deep up there with a transparent vehicle and look for an indigo color.