Imagination Quotes

"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me." ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one." ~ A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin He seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. ~ Hard Times by Charles Dickens It was better to know the worst than to wonder. ~ Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell "You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely." ~ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Why, how much better to be silly, than as wise as you! You don't see shadowy people there, like those that live in sleep—not you. Nor eyes in the knotted panes of glass, nor swift ghosts when it blows hard, nor do you hear voices in the air, nor see men stalking in the sky—not you! I lead a merrier life than you, with all your cleverness. You're the dull men. We're the bright ones. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world. ~ The Listener by Algernon Blackwood It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ~ The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe "I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James