Top 28 Figments Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Figments

#1. We are figments of the same imagination ... We are one

#2. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

R. Scott Bakker

#3. 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.

Jon Pareles

#4. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.

Andrew James Pritchard

#5. 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.

Chris Murray

#6. time flowed by like a black river that I watched from a stationary point on some undefined shore. I hovered above everything, clung to nothing, and regarded the world and its inhabitants as figments of a fleeting and pointless dream. The

Matt Cardin

#7. 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!

Seth Shostak

#8. Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences ... miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer's imagination.

Lisa De Jong

#9. we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

Patricia Crone

#10. Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights. No one was lying when, in 2011, the UN demanded that the Libyan government respect the human rights of its citizens, even though the UN, Libya and human rights are all figments of our fertile imaginations. Ever

Yuval Noah Harari

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

Dov Davidoff

#12. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have ever been.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made us, for once we are thrown into the world, we continue to exist forever, and our stories go on being told, even after we are dead.

Paul Auster

#14. The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism ... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

Francisco Franco

#15. Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#16. Roark stood before them as each man stands in the innocence of his own mind. But Roark stood like that before a hostile crowd - and they knew suddenly that no hatred was possible to him.

Ayn Rand

#17. All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

Charles Churchill

#18. That's the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn't it? We always have so many questions.

Mitch Albom

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

Cynthia Ozick

#20. In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.

Mimi Pond

#21. (Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.

Jack McKeon

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

Mason Cooley

#23. I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Sparky Anderson