Imagines Quotes

120 quotes by 107 authors

I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in… — Yann Martel
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from… — Alan Moore
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is… — Michael Ondaatje
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. — Po Bronson
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. — Soren Kierkegaard
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Max Weber
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,… — Margaret Atwood
But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men… — Christopher Isherwood
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that heâ€™s been robbed. The fact is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. — Jane Austen
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling,… — Rene Descartes
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas… — James Joyce
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of oneâ€™s own heart. — Yukio Mishima
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the… — Alan Watts
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. — Sam Harris

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