Imaginary Friend Quotes

• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

  Lee Ryan

  Imaginary, Stills

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• Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

  Paula Abdul

  Friendship, Kids, Play

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• I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

  George Carlin

  Children, Loner, Bother

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• I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

  Niall Horan

  Used, Imaginary

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• 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.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Littles, Steps, Lost

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.246, Penguin

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• All the literati keep
  An imaginary friend.

  W. H. Auden

  Friendship, Friends, Imaginary

  W. H. Auden, “The Fall Of Rome”

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• Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

  Richard Jeni

  Religious, War, Killing Each Other

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• Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Writing, Tea

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Witty, Clever

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Imaginary

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains

  Elvis Costello

  Laughter, Wine, Broken

  Song: Broken O'riordan, Album: Mighty Like A Rose, 1991

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• I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

  Ian Rankin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

  Brian Posehn

  School, Bully, Nerd

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• I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Imagination, Form

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• My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

  Chris Colfer

  Children, Imaginary

  Chris Colfer speaking at American Librarian Association, 2012.

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Kids, Listening, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted to play with the idea of a role reversal where the imaginary friend is waiting to find that perfect someone but has doubts about whether that day would ever come.

  Dan Santat

  Children, Play, Ideas

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Real, Fate

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.178, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Children, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Lynda Barry

  Enemy, Imaginary

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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