Quotes about Imaginary

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. Votes: 4

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. Votes: 4

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Votes: 4

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Votes: 4

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Votes: 4

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Votes: 4

Imaginary evils are incurable. Votes: 3

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure. Votes: 3

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. Votes: 3

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. Votes: 3

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. Votes: 3

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. Votes: 3

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Votes: 3

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. Votes: 3

I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.' Votes: 3

Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be. Votes: 3

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Votes: 2

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael. Votes: 2

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Votes: 2

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. Votes: 2

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 2

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Votes: 2

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Votes: 2

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. Votes: 2

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. Votes: 2

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Votes: 2

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. Votes: 2

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. Votes: 2

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. Votes: 2

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. Votes: 2

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. Votes: 2

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Votes: 2

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. Votes: 2

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. Votes: 2

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. Votes: 2

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. Votes: 2

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. Votes: 2

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. Votes: 2

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Votes: 2

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. Votes: 2

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. Votes: 2

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.' Votes: 2

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Votes: 2

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Votes: 2

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners. Votes: 2

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. Votes: 2

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. Votes: 2

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Votes: 2

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Votes: 2

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Votes: 2

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Votes: 2

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. Votes: 2

What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right. Votes: 2

Men suck, even imaginary ones Votes: 0

Writers fly with imaginary wings. Votes: 0

Real. Does that make me imaginary? Votes: 0

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't. Votes: 0

Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in an imaginary world Votes: 0

Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in an imaginary world. Votes: 0

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. Votes: 0

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. Votes: 0

All the literati keep An imaginary friend. Votes: 0

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds. Votes: 0

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote. Votes: 0

As a child, I was an imaginary playmate. Votes: 0

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Votes: 0

The imaginary is what tends to become real. Votes: 0

Do not be content with an imaginary god. Votes: 0

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. Votes: 0

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. Votes: 0

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results. Votes: 0

Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity. Votes: 0

Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds. Votes: 0

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. Votes: 0

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. Votes: 0

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real. Votes: 0

We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. Votes: 0

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. Votes: 0

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Votes: 0

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary Votes: 0

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me. Votes: 0

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. Votes: 0

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. Votes: 0

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. Votes: 0

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. Votes: 0

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary. Votes: 0

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. Votes: 0

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary Votes: 0

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies? Votes: 0

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Votes: 0

Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. Votes: 0

Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. Votes: 0

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land. Votes: 0

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent. Votes: 0

Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either. Votes: 0

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. Votes: 0

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. Votes: 0

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves. Votes: 0

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! Votes: 0

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me. Votes: 0

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. Votes: 0

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. Votes: 0

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. Votes: 0

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. Votes: 0

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. Votes: 0

The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. Votes: 0

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. Votes: 0

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals. Votes: 0

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. Votes: 0

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. Votes: 0

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances Votes: 0

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. Votes: 0

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. Votes: 0

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Votes: 0

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. Votes: 0

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. Votes: 0

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. Votes: 0

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. Votes: 0

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. Votes: 0

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. Votes: 0

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary. Votes: 0

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. Votes: 0

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Votes: 0

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. Votes: 0

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. Votes: 0

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. Votes: 0

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary. Votes: 0

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. Votes: 0

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. Votes: 0

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? Votes: 0

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change. Votes: 0

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. Votes: 0

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. Votes: 0

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. Votes: 0

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. Votes: 0

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. Votes: 0

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. Votes: 0

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. Votes: 0

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building. Votes: 0

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. Votes: 0

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Votes: 0

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. Votes: 0

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 0

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. Votes: 0

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. Votes: 0

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. Votes: 0

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians. Votes: 0

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Votes: 0

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. Votes: 0

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time. Votes: 0

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. Votes: 0

Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. Votes: 0

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. Votes: 0

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend. Votes: 0

Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you Votes: 0

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. Votes: 0

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. Votes: 0

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. Votes: 0

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. Votes: 0

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones. Votes: 0

The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment. Votes: 0

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. Votes: 0

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. Votes: 0

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head. Votes: 0

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. Votes: 0

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. Votes: 0

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. Votes: 0

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. Votes: 0

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. Votes: 0

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk Votes: 0

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. Votes: 0

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower. Votes: 0

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. Votes: 0

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions. Votes: 0

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. Votes: 0

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. Votes: 0

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son. Votes: 0

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. Votes: 0

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place. Votes: 0

If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment. Votes: 0

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds Votes: 0

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one Votes: 0

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies. Votes: 0

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Votes: 0

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. Votes: 0

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. Votes: 0

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God. Votes: 0

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. Votes: 0

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? Votes: 0

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. Votes: 0

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! Votes: 0

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend. Votes: 0

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. Votes: 0

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. Votes: 0

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. Votes: 0

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Votes: 0

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. Votes: 0

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. Votes: 0

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. Votes: 0

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. Votes: 0

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. Votes: 0

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. Votes: 0

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. Votes: 0

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. Votes: 0

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. Votes: 0

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. Votes: 0

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. Votes: 0

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. Votes: 0

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Votes: 0

If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend. Votes: 0

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. Votes: 0

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. Votes: 0

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do. Votes: 0

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. Votes: 0

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. Votes: 0

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her. Votes: 0

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. Votes: 0

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. Votes: 0

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Votes: 0

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored. Votes: 0

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. Votes: 0

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. Votes: 0

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. Votes: 0

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. Votes: 0

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. Votes: 0

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. Votes: 0

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. Votes: 0

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. Votes: 0

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... Votes: 0

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you. Votes: 0

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line Votes: 0

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. Votes: 0

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. Votes: 0

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to. Votes: 0

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another. Votes: 0

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. Votes: 0

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real. Votes: 0

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. Votes: 0

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. Votes: 0

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead. Votes: 0

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. Votes: 0

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom. Votes: 0

I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. Votes: 0

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. Votes: 0

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. Votes: 0

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. Votes: 0

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Votes: 0

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. Votes: 0

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary. Votes: 0

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two. Votes: 0

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish. Votes: 0

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! Votes: 0

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things Votes: 0

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry? Votes: 0

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. Votes: 0

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. Votes: 0

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? Votes: 0

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. Votes: 0

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets. Votes: 0

See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend." Votes: 0

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. Votes: 0

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. Votes: 0

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both. Votes: 0

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. Votes: 0

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. Votes: 0

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive. Votes: 0

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. Votes: 0

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. Votes: 0

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength. Votes: 0

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. Votes: 0

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences. Votes: 0

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity. Votes: 0

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. Votes: 0

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another. Votes: 0

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be. Votes: 0

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world. Votes: 0

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. Votes: 0

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. Votes: 0

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. Votes: 0

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Votes: 0

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. Votes: 0

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself. Votes: 0

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.' Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and, like, hit the town, hit the boutiques. Votes: 0

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart. Votes: 0

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. Votes: 0

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. Votes: 0

As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation. Votes: 0

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. Votes: 0

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning. Votes: 0

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. Votes: 0

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. Votes: 0

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods. Votes: 0

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose. Votes: 0

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism. Votes: 0

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. Votes: 0

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem. Votes: 0

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end. Votes: 0

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary. Votes: 0

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time. Votes: 0

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. Votes: 0

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. Votes: 0

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page. Votes: 0

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! Votes: 0

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. Votes: 0

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth. Votes: 0

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. Votes: 0

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination. Votes: 0

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. Votes: 0

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere. Votes: 0

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. Votes: 0

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. Votes: 0

I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. Votes: 0

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. Votes: 0

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin. Votes: 0

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. Votes: 0

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. Votes: 0

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true. Votes: 0

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book. Votes: 0

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream. Votes: 0

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity. Votes: 0

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years. Votes: 0

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us. Votes: 0

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. Votes: 0

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling. Votes: 0

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals. Votes: 0

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond. Votes: 0

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors. Votes: 0

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. Votes: 0

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do. Votes: 0

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. Votes: 0

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. Votes: 0

The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that. Votes: 0

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Votes: 0

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world. Votes: 0

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Votes: 0

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good. Votes: 0

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not. Votes: 0

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. Votes: 0

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. Votes: 0

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it. Votes: 0

This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. Votes: 0

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw. Votes: 0

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. Votes: 0

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke. Votes: 0

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it. Votes: 0

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience. Votes: 0

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange' Votes: 0

I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong. Votes: 0

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary Votes: 0

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. Votes: 0

Bubba was the one person who wouldn't even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an "imaginary" friend. Heck, he'd probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick Votes: 0

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience Votes: 0

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that's the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been. Votes: 0

Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life. Votes: 0

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Votes: 0

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was. Votes: 0

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. Votes: 0

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures. Votes: 0

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent. Votes: 0

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane. Votes: 0

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing. Votes: 0

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. Votes: 0

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary. Votes: 0

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. Votes: 0

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others. Votes: 0

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. Votes: 0

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists. Votes: 0

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good. Votes: 0

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end. Votes: 0

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject. Votes: 0

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity. Votes: 0

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit. Votes: 0

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. Votes: 0