Imaginary Quotes - Page 11

• Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, People, Secret

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Superhero

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

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• Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Order, Hallucinations

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

  Gerald Durrell

  Mother, Uncles, Cat

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• I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Play, Backyards

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• Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Car, Pockets

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• Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Two, Feet

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Real. Does that make me imaginary?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Doe

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• The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Love Is, Perception, Shadow

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Hands

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

  W. H. Auden

  Insane, Facts, Would Be

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• You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brave, Care, Persons

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.37, A&C Black

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• The imaginary is what tends to become real.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Reality

  The White-Haired Revolver (1932)

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• As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, People, World

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press

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• At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Holding Back

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• He says he’d rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we’re family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he’s the kid with only imaginary friends for company. ‘Normal’ Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Uncles, Kids, Normal

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

  Sarah MacLean

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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, Real, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

  Philip Sington

  Literature, Paper, Madness

  Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.77, Random House

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• ... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

  Joe Hill

  Real, Imagination, People

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Children, Ambition

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Book, Transition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• ...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Soul, Desire

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Historical Novels, Fantasy

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