Figments Quotes

• I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Names, Headstone

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

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• I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Glasses, Mirrors

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage

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• Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.

  Simon Sinek

  Imagination, Vision, Share

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2012

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• Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

  Lily Tomlin

  Imagination, Sometimes, Feels

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• Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.

  Paul Washer

  Morning, Sunday, America

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• Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

  Byron Katie

  Imagination, Life Is

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• I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

  David Geffen

  People, Imagination, Imagine

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• You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

  Stephen King

  Men, Imagination, May

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

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• Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Taken, Eye, Simple

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.42, Faber & Faber

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• A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Imagination, Illusion, Victim

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• Life is a smoke that curls-
  Curls in a flickering skein,
  That winds and whisks and whirls,
  A figment thin and vain,
  Into the vast inane.
  One end for hut and hall.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Curls

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Imagination, Facts

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• It's just a figment of the imagination.

  Jacob Zuma

  Imagination, Ridiculous

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Artist, Names

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Mean, Mind

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• I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  People, Black History, African American

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

  Derek Landy

  Imagination, Hallucinations, Certain

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• I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
  In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Book, Character, Loss

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• Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  David Jeremiah

  Beautiful, People, Imagination

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• Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Knowing, Imagination, Saws

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• Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Reality, Design, Abuse

  Ralph Cudworth (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.322

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• Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Atheist, Reality, Understanding God

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.120, Macmillan

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• I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.

  Paul O'Grady

  Attitude, Years, Roots

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• Man - a figment of God's imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Imagination

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• A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

  Jessica Mitford

  Book, Reading, Years

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”

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