Imagined Quotes

921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was… — Marcel Proust
When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways… — Christina Baker Kline
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. — Victor Hugo
Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading… — Stephenie Meyer
After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come.… — Juliet Marillier
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist… — Tom Robbins
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. — Siri Hustvedt
Alex took a silent step closer to the kitchen door and watched unseen as willow spooned instant coffee into a pair of mugs.With another yawn,… — L.A. Weatherly
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what… — Jessica Valenti
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants… — Ned Vizzini
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. — Gregory Maguire
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying. — Theodor Adorno
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is… — Eric Hoffer
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've… — Jodi Picoult
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined,… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that… — Ernest Becker
You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel… — John Banville
I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day… — Darren Shan
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker… — Jude Deveraux
Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border… — Rick Riordan
I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have… — Rick Riordan
It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing… — Hilary Duff
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough. — Jacinto Benavente
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. — Cassandra Clare

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