Quotes About Fantasy

Books at bedtime, most enchanting Half-asleep, dipping our cozy feet Into fantasy and dreams so sweet.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

in a winter fireplace burns the fantasy of spring — wildflowers flaming across a lush wooded landscape

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

The BFG changed into his famous top gear and all at once he began to fly forward as though there were springs in his legs and rockets in his toes. He went skimming over the earth like some magical hop-skip-and-jumper with his feet hardly ever touching the ground.

I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.

Camelot is a silly place.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.

Science has been abused for every conceivable purpose under the sun. Which is all the more reason to deliver the power it grants to as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible, instead of leaving it in the hands of a few. It is not a reason to retreat into fantasy – to declare: knowledge is a cultural artifact, nothing is universally true, only mysticism and obfuscation and ignorance will save us.

Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves us locked in private purgatories.

At a deeper level it is a fantasy of no-limits for a people who live within a labyrinth of limits every day of their lives, and who can transgress them only among themselves.

The domain of the imagination is reality.

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion.

Entonces cuéntanos todo al respecto, Edith, ya que sabes tanto. Cuéntanos una historia que comience: 'Érase una vez, una virgen nerviosa que se casó con el lord fantasmal de un castillo embrujado'.

As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day

El laberinto del fauno era una gran prueba de que la fantasía puede ser a su vez poética y política, y eso es una herramienta perfecta para comprender la realidad fantástica de nuestra existencia.

But since everything has its reason, and the fantasy of an individual seems to me just as legitimate as the appetite of a million men and capable of holding just as important a place in the world, we must… live for our vocation, climb up into our ivory tower, and there, like a dancer amid her perfumes, remain alone with our dreams.

Man lives in his dreams, that is where he gets his only reward and receives his only pleasure.

Por los tenebrosos rincones de mi cerebro, acurrucados y desnudos, duermen los extravagantes hijos de mi fantasía esperando en silencio que el Arte los vista de la palabra para poder presentarse decentes en la escena del mundo.

Me cuesta trabajo saber qué cosas he soñado y cuáles me han sucedido. Mis afectos se reparten entre fantasmas de la imaginación y personajes reales.

Por los tenebrosos rincones de mi cerebro, acurrucados y desnudos, duermen los extravagantes hijos de mi fantasía, esperando en silencio que el arte los vista de la palabra para poderse presentar decentes en la escena del mundo.