“One of the great recipes for a certain kind of happiness: a marked reluctance to imagine other people might deeply dislike you.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”— Seneca, twitter.com
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”— Lynda Barry, amazon.com
“But a far more insidious thing happens when people choose to turn off their imaginations: Nothing. An empty house rotting, becoming overgrown with brush, and overrun by rodents.”— Rebekah Cox, artypapers.com
“While my imagination was wandering like this, I came to the point that I no longer knew where I was.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“OCD will involve a lot of overthinking. Things that are yet to happen, but you will already imagine it happening inside your head.”— Miggie Sarmiento, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite h…”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“She doesn’t want to fall for someone new the second they lock eyes. She doesn’t want to imagine a future when there’s barely even a present. But she can’t help it. It’s the way that she is.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”— Zoe Whittall, amazon.com
“Just have fun and go for it – and use your imaginations to find creative new ways to explore, experiment and enjoy.”— Natasha Burton, k-y.com
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.”— Howard Gordon, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“Don’t get too caught up in your imagination. In your mind, your almost boyfriend was perfect…but wait, was he really? Are your feelings based on what your relationship and this person actually were, or what they could’ve, would’ve, should’ve been?”— Paige Sheffield, thelala.com
“A definite picture that he knew he had never seen in reality— remained within him more real than any actual memory.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com