Quotes About Fantasy

I wish I could bottle the seductive look she gave me so I could sniff it when I jack off.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy

There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.

Anything was possible if the impossible was true.

When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland. -'City of Robots',1986

Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use and American accent.

Any sensible person knows that it's only postponing the evil hour, but when you're in debt up to your eyeballs, you stop thinking straight. You get into this self-deluding fantasy that if you can just get over this hump, you'll be heading towards getting straight again. Nobody cons themselves better than a bad debtor.

The abbey was vampire heaven.

If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.

If the child's image of a dead father created only or mostly in fantasy is idealized—dead soldiers are usually idealized as heroes—the mourning over losing them (their fantasized images) becomes more difficult. There is psychological resistance to giving up a hero constructed in one's mind and making him an average dead man.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara.

To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.

Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.

le reve est l'aquarium de la nuit.

Le rêve est l'aquarium de la nuit

She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;

if wishes were horses, all beggars would ride

In her lonely bedroom, surrounded by the novels that had become her friends, she sometimes dared to dream of an adventure of her own, but not often.