Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so entirely out…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have no other…

— Thomas DiMauro

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Without imagination, there’s no power to visualize what we have never experienced... and without that, there can be no progress, no invention.”

— Max Allan Collins

“The modern world was not alive to the tremendous Reality that encompassed it. We were surrounded by an immeasurable abyss of darkness and splendor.…

— Alfred Noyes

“We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods…

— Willa Cather

“Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, “that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the…

— Immanuel Kant

“Until something is prophesied, it cannot be built.”

— Sherry K. White

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not…

— Aldous Huxley

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....”

— Sigmund Freud

“...were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to consider things…

— Mike McCormack