Quotes About Imagination

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

I mean now to try and see her as soon as I can: or perhaps, on second thoughts, I had better not; it is better I should behold her through the eyes of her lover. To my sight, perhaps, she would not appear as she now stands before me; and why should I destroy so sweet a picture?

Imagination, however high it flies, Falls short, however hard it tries. But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless a boundless trust.

The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.

Man sollte alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

We so frequently feel that we are lacking in many qualities which another person apparently possesses; and then we furnish such a person with everything we oirselves possess and witj a certain idealistic complacemny in addition. And in this fashion a Happy Being is finished to perfection--the creature of our imagination.

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant.

Never trembling at that void where, Imagination damns itself to pain, [715] Striving towards the passage there, Round whose mouth all Hell's fires flame: Choose to take that step, happy to go Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow.

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.