Quotes About Chimerical

#1. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis De Sade

#2. The very concept of a loving personal creator was only ever a secondary invention, a grinning wicker man thrown together in antiquity and stood in place as a chimerical response to a world whose everyday works betray the fantasy in every possible way.

John Zande

#3. A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.

Marcel Proust

#6. Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

#7. Chimerical grief - now guilt, now blame, now the thought that it could all have been otherwise. ~ Glory

Marilynne Robinson

#8. That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

James Thomson

#9. Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.

Aporva Kala

#10. Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#11. A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.

Bentley Little

#12. We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

#14. It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

E.F. Schumacher

#15. Having children with someone is the real bond.

Francesca Annis

#16. Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

Richard Crashaw

#17. I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

Luciano Pavarotti

#18. I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won't stop.

Christina Grimmie

#19. I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.

Rodney Alexander

#20. If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.

Bryant McGill

#21. There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.

Sherry Argov

#22. We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Vishwas Chavan

#23. Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.

Charlaine Harris

#24. He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Walter Russell

#25. You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

J.R. Rim

#26. I'm a killer, not a thief.

John Hart