Quotes About Imagination

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe that these are real or will ever be in reality.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure…. Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.

But...even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered.

The failure to adopt other people's points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka once referred to war as "a monstrous failure of imagination.") Perspective taking helps us at once to see others as fundamentally similar to ourselves despite superficial differences (in that we share a common humanity)

La mayoría de las mujeres forjan sueños equivocados del amor; su imaginación las lleva a célicas visiones, perjudiciales, en razón de lo exagerado. Es así, como, para muchas mujeres la vida se divide en dos mundos: el que imaginaron y el que viven.

Qué mundos tengo dentro del alma que ha tiempo vengo pidiendo medios para volar?

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,With vassals and serfs at my side.

Wir waren 7 hungrige Mäuler, und wenn es nichts zu essen gab, hat er uns Geschichten erzählt. Man wird nicht satt davon, aber man vergißt." S.22

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.