Imaginary

Famous quotes containing the word imaginary:

“I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th’ imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism.”
—A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)