Quotes About Imagination

Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

In order to live our lives without limits we must be willing to never let our imaginations die, and we must never forbid ourselves from dreaming at least a little bit every day.

The best things in life are unseen. So we close our eyes when we kiss, sleep and dream.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams go, life is a barren field covered with snow. Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment I could imagine it. As if I peered into a well and far below glimpsed a flash of water.

Later, I almost convinced myself it had not happened, that it had been a vivid dream, drawn from his descriptions and too much imagination. But that is not the truth.

I suppose that is true. You said that he shaped kingdoms, but he also shaped the thoughts of men. Before him, all the heroes were Heracles and Jason. Now children will play at voyaging, conquering hostile lands with wits and words.

But he could tell your father. He might be angry." I said it almost desperately. Soon my skin would grow too warm, and I would no longer be able to think. "So what if he is?" The first time he had said something like this, I had been shocked. That his father might be angry and Achilles would still do as he wished—it was something I did not understand, could barely imagine. It was like a drug to hear him say it. I never tired of it.

Il pensiero che suo padre potesse essere in collera e che tuttavia Achille continuasse a fare ciò che voleva, era una cosa incomprensibile per me, a stento immaginabile. Sentirglielo dire era come una droga. Non ne avevo mai abbastanza.

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.

Bu dünyaya bir an daha dayanamayaca??m, diye dü?ündüm. "Öyleyse çocu?um, ba?ka bir dünya yap.

Ich hatte ihn nicht für so mutig gehalten. Aber natürlich war er das. Künstler, Schöpfer, Erfinder, der größte, den die Welt kannte. Wer furchtsam ist, erschafft nichts.

Je pensai : Je ne pourrai pas supporter ce monde un instant de plus. "Alors fabriques-en un autre, mon enfant.

I had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment I could imagine it. As if I peered into a well and far below glimpsed a flash of water.

I could imagine my half-sisters with their long golden hair and painted eyes, bent on pretty knees.

i could not stop imagining how it would end