Imaginary Quotes - Page 18

• In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  People, Grumbling, Comfort

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

  Robert Silverberg

  Long, Enemy, Waste

  Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

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• I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Thinking, Sat

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Self, Ego, Would Be

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons

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• Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

  Louis C. K.

  Courses

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• Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

  Steve Allen

  Chinese, Religion, Mao

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Baby, Real, Diapers

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Father, Humor

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.

  Tom Kenny

  Hard Work, Emotional, Role Models

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

  Michio Kaku

  Apples, Fire, Upset

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• You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Pyramids, Privilege, Artificial

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2016

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• Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Actors, Achieve

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Citizens

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2007). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Vocabulary, Class

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.253

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• If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill.

  George Saunders

  Communication, Writing, Jumping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.

  Anne Applebaum

  Real, Marine, Technological Change

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

  Gregg Braden

  Real, Distinction

  Gregg Braden (2010). “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Perfect, Storm

  "Aids to Prayer".

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• Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

  Dylan Moran

  Lonely, Cake, Talking

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