Quotes About Imagination

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes.

Not long afterwards we were married. The joy I obtained as a result of this action was not necessarily great or savage, but the suffering which ensued was staggering—so far surpassing what I had imagined that even describing it as "horrendous" would not quite cover it. The "world," after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a single then-and-there decision.

The "literary world" was a place I was grateful for, and blessed, I thought, were those who could spend their lives there.

This was how I happened to invent my clowning.

I'm never satisfied. I need stronger and stronger stimulation. But I'm a coward and a lazybones, so for the most part nothing happens beyond my imagining some excitement. I'm a speculator of the metaphysical. An adventurer only in my mind. A navigator within the reading room. In other words, I'm an insignificant dream-weaver.

I absentmindedly fantasize as I rest my chin in my hand. But in the end I can do nothing.

I'm afraid I don't really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I've never met or known to exist. I'm a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can't write one line- I can't write a word- about it.

Happy talk,Keep talkin' happy talk,Talk about t'ings you like to do.You gotta have a dream;If you don't have a dreamHow you gonna have a dream come true?

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)

Architecture is invention.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.