Top 100 Quotes About Imagination Reality
#1. The British academic Richard Schoch, in his book The Secrets of Happiness, put it this way: "Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.
Eric Weiner
#2. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Success Mindset because ... Whatever you create in your imagination and dreams, will require the right mindset to manifest in reality.
Tony Dovale
#3. What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.
Walt Disney
#4. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#5. Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.
Nancy Hale
#6. Eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.
Denis Johnson
#7. She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination?
Vita Sackville-West
#8. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
Iain Pears
#9. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
#10. But he was not kidnapped ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
Gerard Latortue
#11. They come from my imagination; for, as you know, truth is silent, and it is imagination only which waxes eloquent. Reality represses the flow of feeling like a rock; imagination cuts out a path for itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
#12. Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.
James Anderson
#13. Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
Paula Fox
#14. Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.
Gianni Rodari
#15. Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination
except that it was all reality.
Gary Paulsen
#16. Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.
Ellen J. Barrier
#18. Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.
Lindsey Stirling
#19. Be careful not to lose yourself in a world you have created with magic, for it is in our own imagination that reality can sometimes become the illusion. ~ Drakondia ~ Sleeping Sands
C.A. King
#20. Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
#21. She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was
Leo Tolstoy
#23. Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.
Lawrence Durrell
#24. Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. Reality is only for people with no imagination.
Gavin Freeman
#26. Every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own ...
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#27. Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.
James Siegel
#28. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.
Paranjay Malkan
#29. Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
#30. On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,
And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.
Alberto Caeiro
#31. Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination.
Wallace Stevens
#32. Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
Dejan Stojanovic
#33. The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos.
Helen Keller
#34. All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Wislawa Szymborska
#35. Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.
Marrett Green
#36. I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
Conor McGregor
#37. Have a great imagination and get out of the prison of pervasive reality.
Debasish Mridha
#38. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
#41. Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
Justin Alcala
#42. You shall learn that reality is a cover, that imagination is our true essence. That a blur is more beautiful than what it hides, that scrutiny is a curse and that those who enjoy it are more miserable than how much happier it makes them think they become!
Ibraheem Hamdi
#43. The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
Ben Okri
#44. As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my job to make you as unsure as I am.
Kathryn Mattingly
#45. Imagination ... when reality gets too stupid to live in.
Sarah J. Pepper
#47. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...
Sanhita Baruah
#48. Things imagined are as real as things seen.
Marty Rubin
#49. He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
Umberto Eco
#51. For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult.
Stephen King
#52. Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.
Debasish Mridha
#53. His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
Dan Simmons
#54. There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.
Seneca.
#55. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.
Rivka Galchen
#56. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
Heraclitus
#57. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Gertrude Atherton
#58. Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.
Hassan Blasim
#59. Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says."
"Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark."
"But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.
Karen Harper
#60. Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
Margaret Mead
#61. When the image is identical to reality, the imagination is compelled to be neutral. Therefore let the image of the object lie to the object so we can see what lies beyond the object, and in the light of that vision see what saves us from nothingness.
Mahmoud Darwish
#62. Refuse to let go of your imagination. It is what inspires us to make our dreams, into reality.
K.D. Delgado
#63. Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
William Wordsworth
#64. Never, even in his wildest dreams, had his imagination come close to the reality of her.
Marissa Clarke
#65. Indeed, one would be hard put to say which was more real for him: the world of imagination in which he lived, or the world of reality in which he was but a temporary guest.
Joshua Foer
#66. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
Eva Hoffman
#67. ...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.
Criss Jami
#68. Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.
Nina Berberova
#69. One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.
Auliq Ice
#70. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
Coco J. Ginger
#71. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#72. The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ...
Wallace Stevens
#73. Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.
T.L. Rese
#74. What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.
Robert Breault
#75. Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.
Prerak Trivedi
#76. Be not afraid of fear! Fear is a perception,
not a reality; it resides in imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
Ron Johnson
#78. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
Nora Ephron
#79. Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
Pearl Zhu
#80. The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual.
Marty Rubin
#81. Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
Chad Harbach
#82. It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.
Dale Carnegie
#83. Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.
Denis Waitley
#84. Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones.
Marty Rubin
#86. Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel
#87. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
#88. The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.
Richard Wilkins
#90. For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is - art.
Sigmund Freud
#91. The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
Dean Koontz
#92. Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Cyril Connolly
#93. Either live in reality or get left behind in imagination
Michael Strong
#94. Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
Elena Ferrante
#97. There is no absolute reality. Imagination creates reality.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".
Joan Lindsay
#100. When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
Marty Rubin
