Imagined Quotes

“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Wallace would not have been as successful as he was without Ali’s support.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“I wonder what Ali thought about Wallace? How did he view this tall, gawky, bearded eccentric man? Did Ali defend Wallace when villagers thought he was an evil demon? Did he secretly giggle when he heard Wallace speak Malay with a strong British accent? Did he gossip about his boss with other locals? Why was Wallace enthralled to discover a new beetle or ant? Did Ali see his time with Wallace as a chance to better himself, a grand adventure? Or was his work with Wallace simply a job?”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned to collect and mount specimens. He took on responsibility for organizing travel. He nursed Wallace during many bouts of fever and injury.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

“Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess of Concord, i.e. than I import into it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“We dream and fight with demons real and imagined.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light."

"Waste and void, waste and void. Darkness on the face of the deep," I said. "Then God commanded light. The light of the world descends from the Everlasting Light that is God."

"That is surely one thing it means," said Romanovich. "Bit it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, That matter can arise from energy that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“It's more impressive from a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.”
― Tim Ingold, Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future

“An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“When you really get this whole idea of living a sensual lifestyle and really start owning it, it will set you up for the best kind of life you've ever imagined.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.”
― Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

“Reality is driven by personal desires both positive and negative as well as by dominant fears either real or imagined.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“By the time I left the electrical utility industry, I had seen levels of incompetence, illegal and dangerous activities that I could never have imagined to be possible!”
― Steven Magee

“THE KAA

I imagined his memory was playing tricks on him, the way that dreams are usually a product of the mental state in which we are when we are having them.”
― Iqra Iqbal, AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools

“Carcosa, El Dorado!
It isn't a shimmering mirage, a distant dream that beckons with its golden allure, no it is real and it is more beautiful than we could have ever imagined!”
― Ryan Gelpke