Imaginary Quotes

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

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

...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.

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

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

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

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

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.

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

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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

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

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!

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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

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.

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

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.

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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

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

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

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.