Quotes by Imagination We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. Jean Toomer imaginationenoughmissing I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. Jean Webster imaginationpeoplethinking I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward Jeanne Marie Laskas balloonsimaginationthinking [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson medicineimaginationreality I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. Jeanette Winterson imaginationdreamdesire It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau angerimaginationheart Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. Jean-Jacques Rousseau speakimaginationmen Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. Henry David Thoreau natureimaginationdoe Expand your Imagination. Jeff Hardy wweimagination Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise. Jeff VanderMeer failingimaginationwriting In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau imaginationheartfriendship When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes. Henry David Thoreau imaginationtruthhero Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination. Jeffrey Eugenides novelistsimaginationshould The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense. Jemaine Clement imaginationusebook The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them. Henry David Thoreau fancyimaginationmen However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned. Henry David Thoreau criticismimaginationlife We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced. Henry David Thoreau fairsexperienceimagination When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis. Henry David Thoreau understandingimaginationmen Compassion takes imagination. Jennifer Beals compassionimagination I'm a figment of your imagination. You're only imagining that I'm sitting here eating with you. Because I'm just so freaking awesome that people daydream about being seen with me. Jennifer Estep sittingimaginationpeople«7071727374757677787980»
