We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than reality.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
Jordan Peterson
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S Lewis
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark Twain
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Jung
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
George Orwell
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
