Chimera Quotes
- in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
- If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams. — Jasper Fforde
- It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Without democracy freedom is a chimera — Octavio Paz
- The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
- When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
- I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering… — Cynthia Ozick
- The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak
- Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. — Karl Kraus