Imaginary Quotes

• The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, World, Real World

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Real, Two, Kind

  1945 The Arctic in Fact and Fable.

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• There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, God, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, Xist Publishing

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• I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

  Meg Rosoff

  Dog, Persons, I Can

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• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  Barbara Sher

  Attitude, Real, Worry

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• I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Climbing, Hiking

  "Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

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• 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.

  Thomas Szasz

  Funny, Happiness, Wisdom

  The Second Sin "Emotions" (1973)

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• Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Real, Issues, People

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• With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create the characters who become "real people" when facing the camera. When you stop shooting, they change their costumes and become someone else. And people tend to believe in documentary more than fiction. Even if the fiction is based on a true story, everybody will say, "Oh, they're only actors."

  Mano Khalil

  Real, Believe, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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  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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

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

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• Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Men, Civilization

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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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• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Paradise, Hell

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Men, Worry

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• I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

  Niall Horan

  Used, Imaginary Friend

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• Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

  Saul Bellow

  Decision, Tree, Alternatives

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

  Walt Whitman

  Lines, Limits, Hours

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

  Marianne Moore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Reflection, Evil

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• A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Real Ones

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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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• This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

  Alan Moore

  Stories

  Alan Moore (2010). “Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”, DC

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