#imagination

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. ↗

— Joe Hill

#imagination

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#being-born #birth #imagination

Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did. ↗

— Na

#love #risk #taking-a-leap #imagination

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. ↗

— Clive Barker

#imagination #steer

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ↗

— Mark Twain

#depend #eyes #focus #out #you

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#external #fatiguing #imagination #life #make

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ↗

— George Berkeley

#body #every #exist #formed #ideas

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? ↗

— Sun Tzu

#could #i #i can #if i could #imagine

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#experience #fantasy #films #hatred #imagination