Imaginary Quotes

Imaginary evils are incurable. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
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. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Dont let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. View quote
Mark Akenside
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. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
It's true that it's 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. View quote
Anne Tyler
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. (Peter Atkins)
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
I found that being pregnant was different from how I thought it would be...It shares a lot in common with writing in a way. You have an imaginary version of yourself pregnant, and an imaginary baby, an imaginary idea of yourself as a mother... View quote
Jackie Kay
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. View quote
Walt Whitman
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. View quote
Manuel Puig
The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. View quote
Claire Forlani
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. View quote
Laurence Housman
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. View quote
Mary Wesley
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. (Omar Bongo)
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. View quote
John Adams
Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him. View quote
George Carlin
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it - neither higher nor lower. View quote
Simone Weil