Dreams and Imagination

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other 103 noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

The eye which sees all objects reversed retains the images for some time.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

I wish to work miracles

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.