Quotes About Imagination Vs Reality

#1. 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

#2. There is no absolute reality. Imagination creates reality.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. 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

#5. When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Marty Rubin

#6. Never, even in his wildest dreams, had his imagination come close to the reality of her.

Marissa Clarke

#7. Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.

Debasish Mridha

#8. His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Dan Simmons

#9. There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

Seneca.

#10. 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

#11. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Heraclitus

#12. 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

#13. Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Hassan Blasim

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Your imagination can create a reality

James Cameron

#17. Refuse to let go of your imagination. It is what inspires us to make our dreams, into reality.

K.D. Delgado

#18. Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

William Wordsworth

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. ...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

#23. 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

#24. One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.

Auliq Ice

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ...

Wallace Stevens

#28. Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

T.L. Rese

#29. What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

Robert Breault

#30. Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.

Prerak Trivedi