Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
Lily Tomlin

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis de Sade

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade

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

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

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley

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

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells