Quotes About Imagination

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.

Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot- the taproot of consciousness. It will survive us.

Without manners, violence enters the room. Without the decency of imagination, narcissism leads.

In my private moments of despair, I am aware of the limits of my own imagination... imaginations shared invite collaboration and collaboration creates community. A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. We participate in the vitality of the struggle.

Social change takes time. Communities are built on the practice of patience and imagination - the belief that we are here for the duration and will take care of our relations in times of both drought and abundance. These are the blood and flesh gestures of commitment.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla

We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.

The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.

Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place where the dead are laid to rest. Just the place the Dominator would come. He walks around here and probably imagines a whole harem of sleeping women right beneath his feet.

Living is easier with eyes closed.

Somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly. A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

May all your problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may it be a very long time until you come to pen the words 'the end'.

Wenig Bildung macht Einbildung!

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

I am a daughter of these mountains, and of the tales. Once, I wanted to be in the tales themselves. When I was young, I had my part in one—a small part, but important. When I grew older, I had my part in another kind of story. But now I want to become a teller of tales.

Like most visionaries, he's not particularly observant of the material world.

What followed then was what invariably follows in the wake of every tortured consciousness. From what it dreads or hates, yet knows or feels to be unescapable, it takes refuge in that which may be hoped for—or at least imagined.

you could no more see him in the light that you do than you could rise out of that box and fly through those windows.

In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.