Imagined

Famous quotes containing the word imagined:

“She shut her eyes
and imagined her lover on the bed,
hugged herself tight
with her own loose-bangled arms.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis—the final overthrow.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“We imagined that the sun shining on their bare heads had stamped a liberal and public character on their most private thoughts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)