Quotes About Imagination

But I couldn't concentrate on writing in the notebook. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.

What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be.

You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint—ask yourself who wrote them.

I think that reality has the distinct potential to completely suck, and the way to get around that is to step out of reality from time to time and find something a little more enjoyable with someone you completely, unadulteratedly

I could always find peace in books." "And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.

That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.

I'm a nineteen-year-old guy with nothing better to do than moonlight as a doorman, and daydream about you.

Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.

This blessing," she said to him. "To dream such glad dreams that you wake laughing.

Ester wanted to take him in her own thin arms and race him to some imagined place of safety.

Niet kunnen lezen of schrijven. Nooit kunnen ontsnappen naar een andere wereld, noch een schuilplaats hebben voor de eindeloze stroom dagen.

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

Morgana hat viel erlebt, und durch die Jahrtausende weise geworden, blieb es doch im Herzen ein Kind. Es ist bis heute noch kindlich genug, Neuem gegenüber Verwunderung zu empfinden. Und wer im Herzen ein Kind bleibt, wird vom Leben mit Wundern belohnt.

A lo largo de esa semana comprendió que los libros podían ser una tabla de salvación en un océano de silencio y pena. Y cuando se acostaba, con la espalda dolorida de tanto leer, sentía la mano de Rana en la oscuridad y viajaba con ella por el mundo de las historias leídas.

I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.

Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.