Imaginary Quotes · Page 13

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a…

— Anne Applebaum

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.

— Mikey Way

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to…

— John Green

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to…

— Georges Bataille

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

— Ambrose Bierce

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

— Virginia Woolf

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you…

— Mary McCarthy

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very…

— George Orwell

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Imaginary problems are the root of most problems.”

— Richie Norton

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person…

— Dilshad Vadsaria

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

— C. S. Lewis

To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace…

— Henry Miller

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

— Michael Gungor

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.…

— Damien Hirst

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them…

— John Berger

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian…

— Gottfried Leibniz

I used to have imaginary friends.

— Natti Natasha

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the…

— Anonymous

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

— Douglas Coupland

If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I…

— Andrew Bird

Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I…

— Sandra Bullock