Quotes About Fantasy

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

la realidad, desde luego, es muy superior a la ficción, aunque no sea sino por su imaginación desbordada.

El más sencillo argumento de la realidad es inalcanzable para el ficcionador más delirante.

If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.

Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability." Of the three, the revolution in chaos applies to the universe we see and touch, to objects at human scale.

Rivers had assumed this person was a fantasy, someone the twins had merely dreamt about or invented, but no, Josh had insisted he was real-real and living in Scotland.

I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . loaded with endless possibilities.

Sometimes I ride for passion and sometimes because I am happy and sometimes because I am in another world

The passion for the touch of another person. Comes from a place where the imagination is left to it's own.

Some days... are for dreaming.

The world lives in a sort of fantasy were everything is supposed to look and be a certain way compared to a standard set by fake magazines, fake tv, fake media of all sorts. We've been completely brainwashed in this way and well this is exactly what happens in the "real" world, and it's only seen by "real" people who haven't been fooled.

but I am further persuaded that sex (and its accompanying fantasy of romantic love) is now carrying the burden of much of our lost spirituality.

This search, this fantasy, is the chief fuel for our culture—the fantasy of romantic love, the fantasy that there is this other who will make our life work for us, heal us, protect us, nurture us, and spare us the world's trauma.

I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built, she said. Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses.--Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity

ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea

He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.

Dress the pussy for her nighty and follow her piggytails up their way to Winkyland.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

People who commit suicide in a dramatic fashion often have an agenda and are involved in a fantasy that leads to their death. They're filled with rage and seek revenge against those who have hurt them. They slash their wrists or jump from buildings or fire bullets into their brain. In their fantasy, they witness the discovery of their body by people they hate. In that way, they leave behind a legacy of guilt and sorrow.