Quotes About Fantasy

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Interpretations, like the sculptor's chisel, would be used to target and then chip away at the imprisoning defenses, exposing the patient's inner psychic reality. This inner psychic reality, essentially driven by pleasure-seeking fantasy, pulled the patient away from facing what Freud had referred to as "the brick wall of reality" that would challenge unacceptable fantasies and free the entangled energy for more realistic projects.

One may take on some qualities of a loved one following her death; the five-year-old identifies with his father's moral code in response to the oedipal frustration of being denied mother as a sexual partner. As long as gratification is available via objects in the real world, identification is irrelevant. When gratification is interrupted, when the object is lost or becomes unavailable because of conflict, the object is internalized to permit fantasy gratification. Identification

Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the end.

she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.

Putting it in the spank bank for later.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

so we have no evidence to support another fantasy, namely that the city of Mekness (in Morocco) was founded by a Scot called MacNess.

Where do you get dreams like this?

Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood .

We can't all come and go by Bubble!

Take me to a world where I can be alive

I wanted to make it your fantasy high school. Whatever your feelings were about going to school - and most people were not happy in high school - I wanted to make everyone feel this is the school they wish they had gone to.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.

You live in a world of illusion Where everything's peaches and cream We all face a scarlet conclusion But we spend our time in a dream

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.