How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!
Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.