Quotes About Fantasy

Freud's somewhat puritanical vision was that proper, mature adaptation to the world was governed by deliberate thought and rational planning. He would not have countenanced our present proposition: that an inner world of phantasy is part of man's biological endowment, and that it is the inevitable discrepancy between this inner world and the outer world that compels men to become inventive and imaginative.

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

Tessie Moran, eighteen and not yet in love, was dreaming of handsome young men and moonlight. She could not easily be roused from her enchantment.

Se miente más de la cuenta por falta de fantasía: también la verdad se inventa.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

La filosofía parece ocuparse sólo de la verdad, pero quizá no diga más que fantasías, y la literatura parece ocuparse sólo de fantasías, pero quizá diga la verdad.

And at this point Pereira was reminded of an oft-repeated saying of an uncle of his, an unsuccessful writer, so he quoted it. He said: Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses truth. (Pereira Maintains - 17-8)

Mentally dim enjoys taking own pictures with the mannequin

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, "You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.

Dreams are a reflection of your desires

Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air,There must be a rare name, somewhere… How do you like "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land"?

Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die einzig wahre. The rest is a nightmare!

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

When I was approached to play the queen of witchland, I was fascinated.