Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 420 authors

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream… — Alexandre Dumas
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that… — Philip Pullman
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,… — Lois McMaster Bujold
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings… — George Orwell
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head. — John Scalzi
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but… — Karl Marx
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope… — Maya Angelou
I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I… — Lord Byron
Thereâ€™s a lot I donâ€™t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldnâ€™t understand that she has no interest in getting married… — David Sedaris
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I… — Tabitha Suzuma
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and… — James M. Cain
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. — Virginia Woolf
How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he… — Norton Juster
In Terezaâ€™s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:… — Milan Kundera
A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. — Teresa Medeiros
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for,… — Louisa May Alcott
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability… — Fernando Pessoa

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