#imagination

"Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world."

"Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!"

"An idea is salvation by imagination"

"My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things."

"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."

"Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup."

"Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real."

"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way."

"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it."

"If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

"Fly in the sky of imagination to find the true solution."

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

"I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is."

"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."