Quotes of: Imaginary-world Keyword

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

Nightmarish Sacrifice

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

Letters from a Stoic

One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.

The Pleasures Of Walking

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

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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

Robert Staughton Lynd

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

Stefan Molyneux

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.

Susan Sontag

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.

Nicola Chiaromonte

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Margaret Mahy

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.'

Siri Hustvedt

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

Don Herold

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

David Antin

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.

Margaret Atwood

Tyler Durden: WHOA! WHOA! OK, you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend NEAR 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERIN!

Fight Club

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

Hannes Alfven

Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.

Theodore Volgoff

Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .

Love

I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn't know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes [.....

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the pos...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

You’ve never seemed to really need anyone, Clary. You’ve always been so… contained. All you’ve ever needed is your pencils and your imaginary worlds. So many times I’ve had to say things six, seven times before you’d even respond, you wer...

City of Bones