Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our…

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”

— John Ruskin

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face…

— Jonathan Swift

Imaginary evils are incurable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

— Earl Nightingale

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That…

— Dave Barry

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

— Anagarika Govinda

“Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment.” “Your”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“So then, according to Jesus, the ‘evils’ which we think, say and do are not due primarily to our environment, nor are they bad…

— John R.W. Stott

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

Of your philosophy you makeno use If you give place to accidental evils.

— William Shakespeare

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

— Saul Bellow

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,…

— Maimonides