Quotes About Fantasy

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

The fantasy is that I could leave and be happier. The truth is I could leave and still be unhappy. - Alice

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist?

The dream of being invisible . . . When I find myself in an environment where I can enjoy the illusion of being invisible, I am really happy.

La fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro.

childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise.

Eu chegara ao limiar da adolescência e ainda me ocultava entre as raízes das grandes árvores do bosque para me contar histórias. Uma agulha de pinheiro podia representar para mim um cavaleiro ou uma dama ou um bufão; movimentava-a diante de meus olhos e me exaltava em relatos intermináveis. Depois ficava com vergonha dessas fantasias e fugia.

your purchases and gadgets suggest elaborate and fanciful recipes, at least in your intentions

Il modo in cui le lumache eccitavano la macabra fantasia di nostra sorella, ci spinse, mio fratello e me, a una ribellione, che era insieme di solidarietà con le povere bestie straziate, di disgusto per il sapore delle lumache cotte e d'insofferenza per tutto e per tutti [...].

Todo o imaginável pode ser sonhado mas também o sonho mais inesperado é um enigma que oculta um desejo, ou o seu contrário, um terror.

How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all . . .

Non sapevo che vi conosceste - Ci siamo incontrati in un sogno

When my eyes closed, however, in the darkness I saw that her words had created a new world, like all words that are not true. I

Those who concentrate on the subject's "real relationships" to the exclusion of phantasy and the internal world have of course abandoned psychoanalysis as a "science of the unconscious".

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.

What I loved about the original trilogy is how real it felt. I still to this moment can't believe how it felt to look at the desert of what was supposed to be Tatooine and seeing these two droids walking along and no fantasy genre film had ever, in my experience, looked like that before. And suddenly this was real.

J. K. Rowling

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

Swish and flick.