Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 412 authors

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings… — Jim Woodring
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed… — Leland Ryken
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all… — Pippa Middleton
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. — Chris Hedges
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. — Douglas Coupland
Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the… — U.G. Krishnamurti
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. — Herodotus
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. — Ambrose Bierce
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. — Robert A. Heinlein
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often… — Joseph Addison
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. — Saul Bellow
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. Itâ€™s who you want to… — Laini Taylor
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. — Aesop
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways… — Lloyd Alexander

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