Quotes about inspiration
48 quotes from 44 people
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 4Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
Vladimir Nabokov1899–1977Look at the Harlequins! (1974).
Helen Keller1880–1968“Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy”, Joseph P. Lash (1980)
Frida Kahlo1907–1954Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)Was it worthwhile?
Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935Mensagem (1934), “Mar Português”
Richard Bachborn 1936Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)- Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Book I, Chapter VIIIGreat men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“Ireland”, published in The Edinburgh Review (1820)
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
Roald Dahl1916–1990The Minpins (1991)
