Imagined Quotes

921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but… — Kim Edwards
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which… — Henry James
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,… — Mark Twain
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give… — Michael Cunningham
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even… — Hermann Hesse
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out… — Alice Hoffman
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some… — Blaise Pascal
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and… — Terry Tempest Williams
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. — Boyd K. Packer
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its… — Rebecca Solnit
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in… — Neil Gaiman
[He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan… — Francine Rivers
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth. — William Blake
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. — C.S. Lewis
Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and… — Sharon Shinn
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very… — Italo Svevo
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have… — Arthur Golden
I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I… — Markus Zusak
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. — John Irving
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. — Deepak Chopra

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