Quotes About Fantasy

People cannot stand too much reality.

To put it in scientific terms: instinctive defence-mechanisms have been developed which automatically intervene when the danger is greatest, and their coming into action is represented in fantasy by helpful images which are ineradicably fixed in the human psyche.

This remark stands in abrupt contrast to the fantasy of the Egyptian statue. Miss Miller evidently has an unspoken need to emphasize her almost magical influence over another person. This, too, could not have happened without an inner compulsion, such as is particularly noticeable in one who often does not succeed in establishing a real emotional relationship. She will then solace herself with the idea of her almost magical powers of suggestion.

The relation of the individual to his fantasy is very largely conditioned by his relation to the unconscious in general, and this in turn is conditioned in particular by the spirit of the age. According to the degree of rationalism that prevails, the individual will be more disposed or less to have dealings with the unconscious and its products.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work.

But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Though "instincts" or "drives" can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own. They

Once, she'd dressed up as a French maid. Another time it was a candy striper. Both outfits had really revved him up.

The idea that you can ever reach a point where all your obligations are handled is a fantasy.

Managing computer systems might not generate the daily bliss that defined Thomas's old daydreams, but as he now recognized, nothing would. A fulfilling working life is a more subtle experience than his old fantasies had allowed.

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

And so the child of cinders went to the ball.

I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.

Ah, se… Muitas vezes seus pensamentos tinham girado em círculos em volta desse "se", brincando com a ideia de como sua vida teria sido "se".

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.' 'I don't know if this was like that .' 'What happened?' He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.' Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.

William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

A la gente que nos gusta leer, el mundo real nos da lo mismo.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it.

Probablemente no hay escasez de chicas que quieren jugar a la enfermera con él.

You can't lost what you never had.

My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished.