70 Whimsy Lewis Carroll Quotes to Spark Your Imagination

Let these Lewis Carroll quotes inspire you to run away with your imagination.

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is most well-known for his fairytale children’s stories and epic fantasy poems. 

As a boy, Lewis Carroll was sickly and very shy.

He had a difficult time relating with people his own age and was often bullied.

As a result, when Carroll grew up, he spent little time with adults, but he had a wild imagination and enjoyed sharing his stories with children. 

Alice Liddell was the daughter of Carroll’s dean at Oxford and one of the children who enjoyed listening to Carroll’s fantastic tales.

She inspired Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and, after it’s literary success, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

Since then, Carroll’s stories have continued to fascinate children and adults for over a century. 

Use these Lewis Carroll quotes to spark your imagination and teach you to think like a child again.

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Lewis Carroll quotes to spark your imagination

1. “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!” – Lewis Carroll

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2. “There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.” – Lewis Carroll

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3. “One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.” — Lewis Carroll

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4. “But I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.” – Lewis Carroll

5. “When I used to read fairytales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!” – Lewis Carroll

6. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” – Lewis Carroll

7. “Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” — Lewis Carroll

8. “Sometimes I believe as many as size impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll

9. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll

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Wise Lewis Carroll quotes 

10. “She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.” – Lewis Carroll

11. “Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves.” – Lewis Carroll

12. “Why is it that the people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?” — Lewis Carroll

13. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” — Lewis Carroll

14. “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!” — Lewis Carroll

15. “In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.” – Lewis Carroll

16. “Without a plan, it doesn’t matter which way you’re going.” – Lewis Carroll

17. “I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.” – Lewis Carroll

18. “Life, what is it but a dream?” – Lewis Carroll

19. “I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll

20. “It is the privilege of true genius, and especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity” – Lewis Carroll

21. “If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.” – Lewis Carroll

22. “Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.” ~ Lewis Carroll

23. “If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.” – Lewis Carroll

24. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll

25. “When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.” – Lewis Carroll

26. “Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – Lewis Carroll

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27. “Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes but the name of the secret is love!” — Lewis Carroll

28. “To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.” – Lewis Carroll

29. “All that matters is what we do for each other.” – Lewis Carroll

30. “If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.” – Lewis Carroll

31. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll quotes to live by

32. “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” – Lewis Carroll

33. “If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there.” – Lewis Carroll

34. “Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.” — Lewis Carroll

35. “Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.” – Lewis Carroll

36. “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” – Lewis Carroll

37. “If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.” – Lewis Carroll

38. “People who don’t think shouldn’t talk.” – Lewis Carroll

39. “No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.” – Lewis Carroll

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Relatable Lewis Carroll quotes

40. “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” – Lewis Carroll

41. “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” – Lewis Carroll

42. “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” – Lewis Carroll

43. “How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.” – Lewis Carroll

44. “‎You’re not the same as you were before,” he said. You were much more… muchier… you’ve lost your muchness.” – Lewis Carroll

45. “My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.” – Lewis Carroll

46. “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Lewis Carroll

Other creative Lewis Carroll quotes

47. “Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.” – Lewis Carroll

48. “We’re all mad here.” – Lewis Carroll

49. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll

50. “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” – Lewis Carroll

51. “Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.” – Lewis Carroll

52. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll

53. “I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?” – Lewis Carroll

54. “Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.” – Lewis Carroll

55. “Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.” – Lewis Carroll

56. “‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.'” – Lewis Carroll

57. “I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.” – Lewis Carroll

58. “Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so, a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.” – Lewis Carroll

59. “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” – Lewis Carroll

60. “Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”― Lewis Carroll

61. “No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” – Lewis Carroll

More Lewis Carroll quotes and sayings

62. “You’re thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.” – Lewis Carroll

63. “I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary anymore.” – Lewis Carroll

64. “Consider anything, only don’t cry!” – Lewis Carroll

65. “Well, when one’s lost, I suppose it’s good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.” – Lewis Carroll

66. “The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” – Lewis Carroll

67. “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.” – Lewis Carroll

68. “It’s a large as life and twice as natural.” – Lewis Carroll

69. “You could not see a cloud, because no cloud was in the sky, no birds were flying overhead there were no birds to fly.” – Lewis Carroll

70. “I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” – Lewis Carroll

Did these Lewis Carroll quotes ignite your imagination?

Lewis Carroll’s writings have gone down in history as some of the most successful literary content that ever existed.

Carroll’s stories have also inspired the imaginations of other childhood heroes such as Walt Disney.

Disney’s retelling of Alice’s adventures in his 1920s comedy series and the 1951 animated adaptation sparked a new century of appreciation for Wonderland and the colorful characters which reside there.

Return to these Lewis Carroll quotes anytime you need to let your imagination run wild. 

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