Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Quotations
Imagination
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-G. K. Chesterton
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
