Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

16884 quotes

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"The mind creates a reality no less powerful than the physical world."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"I'm not really here, I'm in another city, another time."
Offred
H
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Dreams are often more real than the waking world."
The Narrator (omniscient)
T
"We didn't rob nobody, we just pretended"
Tom Sawyer
B
"The imagination was a world of its own, separate and entire."
Briony Tallis
D
"The street was like a living thing with secrets."
Death
D
"She survived because she could imagine another world."
Death
G
"The town was a place where the impossible had become commonplace."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"In Macondo, the impossible was merely what had not yet been attempted."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
B
"In her mind, she could recreate the scene, alter it, perfect it."
Briony Tallis
M
"Books are a way to escape."
Marie-Laure
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
B
"She had learned that imagination could be both gift and curse."
Briony Tallis
B
"What did it matter if one was only imagining?"
Briony Tallis
G
"All attempts at magic were nothing more than the crystallization of desire."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She possessed the singular gift of being able to live in multiple times simultaneously."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Imagination is our greatest strength."
Marie-Laure
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The walls of reality were dissolving into dream."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Imagination is the only true freedom."
Marie-Laure
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She was living in a parallel reality, completely impervious to any earthly scourge."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Magic is merely the world's true nature revealed."
Melquiades
M
"The mind is its own geography"
Marie-Laure
G
"Men have taken flight, for they are made of air."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The circus that arrived was like a message from the real world."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"The world is magical, and you are the magician."
Melquiades
M
"Maps are stories we tell ourselves about the world."
Marie-Laure
M
"The imagination is more powerful than any weapon."
Marie-Laure