Imaginary Quotes

524 Imaginary quotes by 412 unique authors

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. — Federico Fellini
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted… — Mohsin Hamid
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. — Don Herold
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. — E. W. Howe
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching… — Naveen Jain
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and… — Paul Klee
I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of… — Ashton Kutcher
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in… — Jacques Lacan
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. — Franz Liszt
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. — Robert Staughton Lynd
I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world… — Marlee Matlin
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an… — H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. — Marianne Moore
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. — Emo Philips
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as… — Raymond Queneau
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. — Salman Rushdie
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. — John Ruskin
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they… — Susan Sontag
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. — Thomas Szasz
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. — Simone Weil
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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