Self Hunger

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates