#na

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#empathy #imagination

She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#imagination

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#imagination

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#imagination

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#imagination #imagination

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#first-love #imagination

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ↗

— George Orwell

#imagination

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#heart #imagination #mind #imagination

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. ↗

— John Keats

#love #truth #imagination

Imagination is the highest form of research. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#imagination