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Quotes About Fantasy

Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.
~ Sylvester McNutt
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
No matter what it is called. No matter how it is imagined. Fancy labels and fantasy are based in thought. Thought is based in human consciousness. Human consciousness is not spiritual consciousness. Fantasy is not reality. We cannot wake up to who and what we truly are while remaining in the dream. There is a simple approach based in reality that works well. Awareness
~ H.W. Mann
Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.
~ Haffner, Sebastian (1907-1999)
HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES in a way that science fiction and fantasy do not.
~ Hal Duncan
Welcome to Erehwyna!
~ Hal Duncan
Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!
~ Hal Duncan
THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
games are an extension of our imagination
~ Hannes Cailkiez
Wie willst du leugnen, liebe Freundin, dass es Wesen gibt - keine Menschen, keine Tiere - seltsame Wesen, die aus der verruchten Lust absurder Gedanken entsprangen?
~ Hanns Heinz Ewers
At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
~ Harold Bloom
I believe that the world is dying, not just me. And fantasy will save no one. The deathly unreality of Utopia, the merchandizing of Utopia is wicked, deadly reality.
~ Harold Brodkey
When you consider that most of these guys are angry, ineffectual losers who feel they've been given the shaft by life, and that most of them have experienced some sort of physical or emotional abuse... it isn't surprising that one of their main fantasy occupations is police officer.
~ Harold Schechter
It's not just extreme deviance that distinguishes the fantasy life of psychopaths but their overpowering urge to translate their sickest fantasies into fact. The most extravagant erotic daydreams of normal people always run up against what Freud called "the reality principle.
~ Harold Schechter
Because of the prominent role that such vicious daydreams play as a preliminary to the act of serial murder, Robert Ressler and his colleagues reached the conclusion that fantasy is the mainspring of sexual homicide. "My research convinced me that the key was not the early trauma but the development of perverse thought patterns," Ressler has written. "These men were motivated to murder by their fantasies.
~ Harold Schechter
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
~ Harrison Ford
What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.
~ Harry Bernstein
Reality is only just a word.
~ Harry Chapin
Maybe somebody will come along and be, like, a Tolkien for horror.
~ Harry Turtledove
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.
~ Hartman Jule
making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord
~ Hasbro My Little Pony
Man lives by imagination.
~ Havelock Ellis