Browsing Topic Best Figments Quotes

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’

I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–ev en you.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion – unless you are victim of it.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

I’m fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

Space and time are figments of you’re imagination, unless the guy you’re flying next to won’t shut up.

Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the existence of Marion Bloom…Marion Bloom was a figment of James Joyce’s imagination. If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of life.

It’s just a figment of the imagination.

The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel’s deformed mutant brother.

It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer’s high privilege.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Artists are… stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously – and sometimes correctly – certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

I’m a figment of your imagination. You’re only imagining that I’m sitting here eating with you. Because I’m just so freaking awesome that people daydream about being seen with me.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Man – a figment of God’s imagination.

We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won’t find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!

Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Life is a smoke that curls-Curls in a flickering skein,That winds and whisks and whirls,A figment thin and vain,Into the vast inane.One end for hut and hall.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do…invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we’re a figment of their imagination.

[Math is] not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations.

Then there’s the silliest of all cliches, ‘on a pace for’ ‘Pace’ is a figment of the mathematician’s imagination.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.