Quotes About Fantasy

But everything that never was is also a thing that might have been – and such a thing has more existence than you or I, for it has a thousand potential existences, and we have only the one we were born to. And of all those possibilities, what could be more fantastical a transformation?

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.

Do not all attempts, in our own cultural sphere at least, at escaping from the Judeo-Christian compound by means of a unilateral call to return to what it has repressed (rhythm, drive, the feminine, etc.), converge on the same Celinian anti-Semitic fantasy? And this is so because, as I have tried to explain earlier the writings of the chosen people have selected a place, in the most determined manner, on that untenable crest of manness seen as symbolic fact—which constitutes abjection.

A veces necesitamos de los sueños para poder vivir la realidad.

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

You could think about a woman every day for years, imagine what she might feel like in your arms, but it never, ever matched the real thing.

The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

I wish I had funny dreams. My dreams are rare and inevitably end in my own death.

I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.