Quotes About Imagination

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing ?

something foolish, something creative and something generous.

Me? I'm too boring to have nightmares." He laughed. "Hell, I don't think I even dream.

Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story...but departed the text.

Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.

ground, then drank some and fancied it

I imagined the pleasure Æthelred would take if he could seize Stiorra. He was my cousin and we had hated each other since childhood.

If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic.

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Le storie ci accompagneranno finchè esisterà l'uomo. Lo si capisce, in parte, dall'effetto che hanno sui bambini. Grazie alle storie i bambini capiscono che il mistero non li ucciderà. Grazie alle storie scoprono di avere un futuro.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. Because it is.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. -John Merrick

If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of celestial personages are every whit as mad as the people who think they see them. Luther, when he threw his inkhorn at the devil, was no more mad than any other Augustinian monk: he had a more vivid imagination, and hd perhaps eaten and slept less: that was all.

Manche Menschen sehen die Dinge, wie sie sind, und fragen: Warum? Ich träume von Dingen, die es noch nie gegeben hat, und frage: "Warum nicht?

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

L'amour, c'est la victoire de l'imagination sur l'intelligence.

Dis-lui que les livres ont la puissance que leur accorde leur lecteur et que celle-ci peut être sans fin.

To all the readers, whom despite the attraction of tv, of internet, of family troubles, of video games, of sport, of night clubs, have found some hours so we can all dream together.

l'Histoire a plus d'imagination que les hommes ? le Diable plus que l'Histoire ? et il n'est pas du genre, le Diable, à commettre l'erreur d'amateur de nous resservir un génocide en tous points semblable à l'étalon du genre ? (ch. 57 La Shoah au coeur et dans la tête)

Why should we doubt the evidence of dreams? for what is our life, occupied as it is with vain and fleeting imaginations, other than a prolonged vision of the night?

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Goethe's poems are like tiny paintings in beautiful frames.