Quotes About Imaginary Friends

#1. Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

Rachel Bloom

#2. Make peace with your fears; after all, they are only imaginary friends.

Samer Chidiac

#3. He says he'd rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we're family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he's the kid with only imaginary friends for company. 'Normal' Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

K.A. Applegate

#5. I once read that people who have imaginary friends never reach out to touch them. There's some part of their brain that subconsciously knows it will break the spell. That's what it feels like with Jay.

L. H. Cosway

#6. I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'

David Archuleta

#7. Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.

Anonymous

#8. Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

Keith Donohue

#9. Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

Alison Gopnik

#11. Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

Beth Ditto

#12. One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

Sunwolf

#13. Every child's dream is to push a button and kill imaginary friends.

Cameron Jace

#14. I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

Olivia Wilde

#15. A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

Christie Silvers

#16. Been brainwashed since age 2
I only had imaginary friends
And still do
And they hate you

Mac Lethal

#17. Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#18. Everyone chatters about their imaginary friends. Some are ascribing agency, motivation, and intelligence to patterns of societal forces that are the emergent properties of distributed interactions. Others are writing - or filming - fiction.

Manu Saadia

#19. I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Ian Rankin

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

Paula Abdul

#21. And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.

Jim Butcher

#22. When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

Tayari Jones

#23. Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are drawn to them like moths to flame. Why do you think so many children have imaginary friends?

Julie Kagawa

#24. Everybody has unattainable crushes too and imaginary friends. Some part of their mind that they talk to when they can't deal with talking to real people.

Kate Hattemer

#25. I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

Claire Danes

#26. I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

Brian Posehn

#27. I've gone crazy and now so have my imaginary friends.

C.S. Johnson

#28. I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Lee Ryan

#30. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.

Robin Sacredfire

#31. My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

Chris Colfer

#32. If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.

Susan Spann

#33. Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.

Mary Papas

#34. 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

#35. The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. The thought of hovering above the earth, weightless in a lilac sky, appealed to her, in the same way imaginary friends appealed to her, or talking alligators.

Sarah Addison Allen

#37. You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

Henning Mankell

#38. I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.

Dan Brown

#39. She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself.

Don DeLillo

#40. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.

Rebecca McNutt

#41. We're all imaginary friends to one another,

Jim Butcher

#42. Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

Brad Meltzer

#43. Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.

Katherine Applegate

#44. As the years passed, it became clear that Alio was a ghost, not an imaginary friend. Imaginary friends have no borders, but ghosts often do.

S. Vest

#45. I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

Gale Harold

#46. Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

Roxane Gay

#47. I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#48. You know what they say about friends and enemies.' Brochan nodded wisely. 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' My smile broadened. 'Nah. I'm talking about what you call a fake friend.' I received four identical eye rolls. I made an imaginary drum roll. 'A faux, of course.

Helen Harper

#49. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Mohsin Hamid

#50. But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

Penn Jillette

#51. Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

Charles Schumer

#52. I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Harlan Ellison

#53. Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Ben Rice

#54. One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

Jessica Zafra

#55. Now here's Amy Pond, standing in the freezing ocean, holding the body of her imaginary friend, and shouting at the sea to make him better.
Yeah. If only my therapists could see me now.

James Goss

#56. Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.

Theodore Volgoff

#57. The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing.

Joss Sheldon

#58. When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Rita Rudner

#59. If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
a boy or pretty girl.

The friend I'd dare to choose
to stand by me each day
would be a dragon fierce enough
to scare the world away.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#60. All the literati keep
An imaginary friend.

W. H. Auden

#61. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.

Rebecca McNutt

#62. Bethany." His quiet voice intruded.
Her heart turned over heavily. "This is real right?"
His face contorted as if he were in pain. "Yes, it's real."
Crazy people probably did things like this all the time. Asked their imaginary alien friends if they were real, and of course, they'd say yes.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#63. When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.

Louisa May Alcott