Imagined Quotes

921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,… — William Butler Yeats
Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if… — Melina Marchetta
I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised,… — Melina Marchetta
Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest corner of her… — Cassandra Clare
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as… — Cassandra Clare
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal… — Adrienne Rich
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be — Paulo Coelho
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock… — Libba Bray
What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you… — Eckhart Tolle
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil… — Thrity Umrigar
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in… — Jane Goodall
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — Neil Gaiman
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,… — Ilona Andrews
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the… — Paul Murray
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or… — Mark Strand
I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. — Rick Riordan
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew. — Stephen King
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to… — Joan Didion
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for… — Arthur Golden
Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her… — Margaret George
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? — John Waters
He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of… — Christine Feehan
For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army… — Phyllis Chesler

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