Admission Quote by Edmund White

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

— Albert Camus

“It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination.”

— Hélène Grémillon

“Most people who constantly say, “Let’s be realistic,” are really just living in fear, deathly afraid of being disappointed again. Out of that fear,…

— Anthony Robbins

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

— Alfred North Whitehead

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

— Paul David Tripp

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

— Anna Funder

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

— Havelock Ellis

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

— Behdad Sami

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give…

— Joshua Ferris

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

— David Bowie

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich