Quotes by Imagination It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination. Thomas Harris imaginationhurtmen It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness. Thomas Hardy pleasurepainimagination Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. Terry Pratchett imaginationsaidlooks Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination. Thomas Kinkade soulimaginationfire I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job. Thomas Kinkade imaginationjobspeople I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books. Thomas Kinkade imaginationlisteningbook The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. Thomas Kinkade imaginationlyingart For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense. Thomas Hobbes obscureeyeimagination The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts. Thomas Hobbes imaginationgodmen My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds? Thomas Ligotti imaginationsoundthinking It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple. Terry Pratchett glowingpurpleimagination Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination Thomas Moore problemimaginationenough He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore. Terry Pratchett imaginationbookinteresting The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. Thomas Huxley probabilitylimitsimagination Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions. Thomas Nagel commitmurderimagination When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God. Thomas Merton silencerealimagination To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. Thomas Traherne imaginationhappinessthinking He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination. Thomas Merton trust-in-godpossessionimagination The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around. Thomas Merton certainimaginationshould Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Thomas Carlyle understandingimaginationmatter«148149150151152153154155156157158»
