Quotes About Fantasy

for Continental philosophy, the idea of consciousness and of an independent self-agency is ultimately a useless fantasy that boils down to an impossible desire for self-control – because it is impossible for us to know all that goes on in the mind at any one time.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.

Christopher Rowley

Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it—if he were going to do it.

The unreal is more powerful than the real.... Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony.

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.

That—that's a Carthian sun dragon," he said, shooting a look at Strangward. "Isn't it?" Strangward nodded. "But . . . it is my understanding that dragons are not real," Botetort said. Strangward looked from the dragon to Botetort. "I assure you, this dragon is absolutely real. Touch it if you like.

Pirates having a tea party? Not possible.

Han was thinking he was just as likely to shoot flames from his rear end.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

A man I barely knew told me, "When the grid goes down, the mythical creatures return.

Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world. Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn

Peckinpah gives the final shoot-out in which they all die a kind of orgasmic rush that releases all of us from the cinematic or, more accurately, the American fantasy that we will survive no matter what.

You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.

I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.

Porn is like sex without orgasm, compulsive without being satisfying.

After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.