Imagination Quotes

“Laws of silence don't work....
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light.
When there is desperation,
Offer hope.”
― Tim Fargo

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Use your imagination to create your beautiful life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whatever man imagines is possible”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“I dwell on endless possibilities.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

“Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of.”
― Gaston Bachelard

“I could burn this place down
As many times as I'd like in my mind,
Without any sympathy
For the girl or her mother
Who live beneath me”
― Matthew Little, Hell in a Basket: A small collection of personal poems.

“Imagination is paradise.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I am blessed.
I am beautiful.
I am great.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.”
― Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.”
― Helen Keller

“On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

“The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman, Evelyn Evelyn

“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.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“comment mesurer l'amour??
chacun sait que l'instrument n'est pas encore né,capable d’apprécier,sans risque d'erreur et par-delà les illusions, l'intensité de nos sentiments. Si divers sont les objets de l'amour et les manières d'aimer...”
― Erik Orsenna, Voyage aux pays du coton: Petit précis de mondialisation

“Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.”
― Justin K. McFarlane Beau

“When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional.”
― Darin Strauss, Half a Life

“Imagination is a sacred place.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the alpha level, your imagination acts powerfully on your subconsciousness mind and therefore your imaginings are powerfully effective in producing the desired result. It is believed that our subconscious mind represents nearly 90 percent of our mental capacity, which is why influencing your subconscious mind produces such powerful effects.”
― Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life