Quotes About Fantasy

The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born; The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home; The Dark Tower: Treachery; The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (one-shot comic, not collected); The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead; The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.

Modern science has killed the Fantastic, and with the Fantastic, Poetry—which is also Fantasy. The last Fairy is well and truly buried—or dried, like a rare flower, between two pages of Monsieur Balzac.

When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

L'amour, tu sais, ce dont il a le plus besoin, c'est l'imagination. Il faut que chacun invente l'autre avec toute son imagination, avec toutes ses forces et qu'il ne cède pas un pouce du terrain à la réalité ; alors, là, lorsque deux imaginations se rencontrent… Il n'y a rien de plus beau.

Non vale la pena di vivere nulla che non sia un'opera d'immaginazione, sennò il mare sarebbe soltanto acqua salata…»

Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.

As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Identity by religion, cutting across caste, region and language, has become something of a fantasy for pre-modern times.

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Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitterness into a sea of socialist sweetness, by progressively pouring into it bottles of social reformist lemonade, presents an idea that is merely more insipid but no less phantastic.

For the fairies dwell only in the kingdom of Happiness; having no souls they cannot enter the kingdom of Sorrow.

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I had, in my vivid imagination, a passport to fairyland.

It's better to imagine than to know.

Have you ever read stories that weren't true? demanded Paula.

Keep your dream, little Marigold for as long as you can. A dream is an immortal thing. Time cannot kill it or age wither it. You may tire of reality but never of dreams. The dreamer's joy is worth the dreamer's pain.

Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

How'd you like to come here and give your knight in shining armor a big ol' kiss?