Fictions Quotes
65 Fictions quotes by 61 unique authors
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
— David Levithan
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Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.…
— Albert Pike
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We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to…
— Stefan Molyneux
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It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons,…
— Orson Scott Card
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid…
— Colin Meloy
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
— William J. Mann
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I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that…
— Roxane Gay
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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
— Richard Flanagan
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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own…
— Julian Castro
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The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and…
— Alfred Adler
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Religious fictions,fates are illusion to science
— Unknown Author
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body,…
— Bodhidharma
Who Wrote These Fictions Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 65 Fictions Quotes, led by these top contributors: