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1 " Everything that humans have achieved until now, were once merely an imagination in someone’s head. "
2 " As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of the ocean. An imagination is a powerful thing. "
― Shelley Coriell , Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
3 " Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
4 " Dreams are often dangerous.Those endowed with an imagination don't run a way from this world, They think about the fate of all its creatures. They worry even about the flowers and the ants. But someone with a dream wants to make everyone service his dream.Ghazalnus "
5 " What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that. "
6 " How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change? "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough , Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
7 " What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions. "
― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You
8 " Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart. "
― Debasish Mridha
9 " Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because " all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, but is of the world." This injunction is at best a paradox. Our humble and astonishing inheritance is the world and only the world, whose existence we constantly test (and prove) by telling ourselves stories about it. The suspicion that we and the world are made in the image of something wonderfully and chaotically coherent far beyond our grasp, of which we are also part; the hope that our exploded cosmos and we, its stardust, have an ineffable meaning and method; the delight in retelling the old metaphor of the world as a book we read and in which we too are read; the conceit that what we can know of reality is an imagination made of language — all this finds its material manifestation in that self-portrait we call a library. And our love for it, and our lust to see more of it, and our pride in its accomplishments as we wander through shelves full of books that promise more and more delights, are among our happiest, most moving proofs of possessing, in spite of all the miseries and sorrows of this life, a more intimate, consolatory, perhaps redeeming faith in a method behind the madness than any jealous deity could wish upon us. "
10 " If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable? "
11 " What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago. "
12 " …no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. "
― Louisa May Alcott , Little Men
13 " Religious persons are generally very interested in sex just like any normal person - and have an imagination and the energy for it. When constrained by the guilt cycle, however, they keep it under wraps. When guilt is temporarily removed, they can go to the other extreme. Many can remain in the uninhibited phase for weeks - months at most - then a wave of guilt overtakes them. "
― Darrel Ray , Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
14 " What good is having an imagination if you don't use it? "
15 " If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing? "
― Cathleen Schine , She Is Me
16 " Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be. "
17 " God created us in His image, and He gave us an imagination with His imprint to create things for His glory! "
― Alisa Hope Wagner , Eve of Awakening (The Onoma Series Book 1)
18 " What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you? "
― Carolyn Wells , Patty's Summer Days (Patty Fairfield #4)
19 " The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the feet of the Self for a reason, and people are watching. A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time. "
― Annie Dillard , An American Childhood
20 " I'm born with wild horses in my head..With an imagination to conquer this world..I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage. "
