Imaginary Quotes - Page 12

• I'm not interested in an imaginary world

  Edward Bond

  World, Not Interested, Imaginary World

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• So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Perfect, Literature

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.138, U of Minnesota Press

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• Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

  Anne Desclos

  Dream, Who I Am, Long

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• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Feelings

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• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Courage, Men

  "The Baltimore Sun" Newspaper, February 12, 1923.

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Life, Reality, Antidote

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• I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Might, Speak

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• Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

  Noah Hathaway

  Land, Fantasia

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• Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Play, People

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Looks, Building

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• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

  Mike Nichols

  Real, Psychology, Theatre

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• There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Real, Light

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• Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

  H. G. Wells

  World, Vivid, Firsts

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.23, H. G. Wells

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• I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

  Matthew Lillard

  Funny, Dog, Here I Am

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• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Real, Views

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Life And Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Home, Men, Desert

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.162, Random House

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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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• The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

  Rocko

  Giants, Bottles, Whiskey

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• I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Book

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die for Me”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Hands, Sins Not

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

  Leonard Rose

  Play, People, Important

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