I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

- Lee Ryan

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

- Simone Weil

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

- Salman Rushdie

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

- Robert Krulwich

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

- Paula Abdul

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

- Paul Harris

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

- Noah Hathaway

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

- Mark Akenside

Imaginary evils are incurable.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

- Margaret Atwood

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

- Amy Lee

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

- Lloyd Alexander

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

- Jonathan Nolan

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

- Jami Attenberg

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

- John Ruskin

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

- Iyad Allawi

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

- Edward Bond

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

- Claire Forlani

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

- Barbara Sher