Imaginary Quotes

524 Imaginary quotes by 412 unique authors

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. — Claire Forlani
Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. — H. W. L. Poonja
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is… — Georges Bataille
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and… — Walpola Rahula
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. — Teju Cole
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. — Edward Abbey
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. — Raymond Queneau
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary… — Barbara Sher
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. — Barbara Sher
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound… — Unknown Author
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments… — Adam Thirlwell
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves… — Manuel Puig
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can… — Bob Geldof
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. — Gottfried Leibniz

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