Imagination Quotes

“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”
― Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown

“Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught,’ she says. He raises his eyebrows. ‘That does not surprise me. It is not better. But it is easier. One’s imagination is always more generous. And yet, the chase always tires you out in the end.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.”
― Terence McKenna

“In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.”
― Edward Albee

“A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D.

“Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D.

“Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.”
― John Banville

“I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.”
― Clive Barker

“Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”
― Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

“Imagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Happiness is an awareness, perception, feeling, and imagination. Happiness is a state of mind not a condition.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we "know" that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.”
― Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

“What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.
She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.”
― Alice Walker

“The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.”
― Joe Hill

“Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.”
― Orrin Woodward

“You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done”
― A.M.M Alusi

“Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“I will Construct thyself in a box & challenge thyself to jump out of it......”
― Wilson M Rubaihayo

“People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.”
― P.K. Shaw