Imagination Quotes

I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Your imagination gives your dreams a direction!

Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.