These vivid quotes will inspire you. Vivid produces powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind or (of a color) intensely deep or bright.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging vivid quotes, vivid sayings, and vivid proverbs.
Famous Vivid Quotes
- “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what’s vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
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“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” ~ George Will
- “Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.” ~ Stephen LaBerge , Vivid quotes dreams
- “I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.” ~ Nancy Reagan
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“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man’s increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.” ~ Seth Low
- “Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” ~ David Hume , Vivid quotes imagination
- “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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“I have a very vivid imagination.” ~ Janice Dickinson
- “News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.” ~ Walter W. Powell
- “But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.” ~ Pierre Loti
- “Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America.” ~ Frank Buckles
- “The ‘inquests’ which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word ‘inquisitorial’ bears the burden of historical unpopularity.” ~ Edward Jenks
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“Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- “The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.” ~ Walter Bagehot
- “Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen.” ~ Uta Hagen
- “We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
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“I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That’s the world I write about…the world I live in.” ~ Julia Glass
- “The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.” ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton , Vivid quotes memories
- “It doesn’t matter whether characters are real people or not; if they’re not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn’t care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn’t care about them that much, then they don’t care what happens to them.” ~ Salman Rushdie
- “Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.” ~ Sharon Kay Penman
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“Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.” ~ Mark Twain
- “If it weren’t for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.” ~ Mindy Kaling
- “I could really appreciate him now – could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
- “It’s no good. I’ve been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can’t. Writing here is a sort of drug. It’s the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote… And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn’t understand. I mean, it’s vanity. But it seems a sort of magic… And I just can’t live in this present. I would go mad if I did” ~ John Fowles
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“It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.” ~ Helen Hollick
- “Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.” ~ Lisa Ann Sandell
- “You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing–all of it…it is wrong. I want your version of life…vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.” ~ Sarah MacLean
- “No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.” ~ James A. Baldwin
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“I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?” ~ Roger Zelazny
- “She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.” ~ Isaac Marion
- “People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don’t you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.” ~ Seth
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“She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.” ~ Tim O’Brien
- “Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant “satisfaction to the thought.” This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “Try it on.” “It’s probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing.” He merely smiled. “It has a slit up the thigh.” His smile depened. “Zip it up?” Patch’s eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. “I’m going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won’t be pretty.” ~ Becca Fitzpatrick
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“Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation – indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink – parents’ smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light – everything so clear and perfect I’m sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.” ~ Lauren Oliver
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“My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.” ~ Nicole Ari Parker
- “Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.” ~ Federico Fellini
- “Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight.” ~ George MacDonald
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“A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.” ~ Douglas McCulloh
- “The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing” ~ Henry Seidel Canby
- “It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)” ~ Donald Rumsfeld
- “Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.” ~ Danny Boyle
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“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail – in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form” ~ Henry James
- “It’s more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.” ~ Katherine Center
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“Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.” ~ Ivars Peterson
- “Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does – in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land.” ~ William Zinsser
- “My music is very raw, it’s emotional, and it’s honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.” ~ Adrian Marcel
- “I think continually of those who were truly great…Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.” ~ Stephen Spender
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“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.” ~ Van Wyck Brooks
- “Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.” ~ Megan Abbott
- “I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.” ~ Beverly Cleary
