Imaginary Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

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

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

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. Optimus Prime maybe?

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

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.

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

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

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

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.

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

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

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.

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

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

As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.

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

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

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.

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?