People Quote by Edith Wharton

“He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.”

— Dianna Hardy

“It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“And he saw now that it wasn't real. That it had never been real. He could feel that other life shrinking and losing its…

— Dan Chaon

“He hadn’t really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn’t there.…

— Marcus Sakey

“But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”

— Alice Hoffman

“and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long”

— Richard Bach

“It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.”

— Richard Brautigan

“Lately, he had been thinking. He'd been thinking that his life didn't reflect everything going on inside his head.”

— Nathan McCall

“What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Thought is a living thing.”

— Eric Pepin