Quotes About Imagination

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

You can't burn down a made-up place.

I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.