If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
Don Herold

Imaginary evils are incurable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John Ruskin

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emile M. Cioran

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
Hugo Weaving

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
Dorothy Dix

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
Omar Bongo

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Anne Sullivan

It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
Anne Tyler

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.
Charlotte Mary Yonge

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside

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

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edward W. Howe

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
Jonathan Kellerman