“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Quotes about imagination page 11
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: On the Edge
David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Variant: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Source: The Essential Gore Vidal
Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist
Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Gloria Whelan (1923) British children's writer
Source: Parade of Shadows
“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
Source: Beautiful Ruins
“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
Po Bronson (1964) American writer
Source: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
“My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Source: Lost Girls, libro 3: Grande y terrible
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist
“Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
“Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
“I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.”
Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer
Source: Magonia
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
Pt. II, ch. 2
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer
Source: Essays In Love
“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Source: The Complete Poems
Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer
Source: Spellweaver
“You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood…”
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs
Source: Venus in Furs
“You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.”
R.S. Thomas book The Echoes Return Slow
Source: "The Echoes Return Slow" in The Echoes Return Slow (1988)
“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Maggie Shayne (1965) American writer
Source: Colder than Ice
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
Source: Everything Flows
“If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Entwined with You
“Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty."
-Percy”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
