“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what’s standing before you.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“My love is my soul's imagination…
how do I love you… imagine.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

Albert Camus book The Fall

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”

Anita Shreve book Fortune's Rocks