Quotes About Fantasy

For many game players, games exist for entertainment, for passing the time, for fun. They are a diversionary activity, meant for relaxation or distraction—a "not- work" space where players are free to engage in fantasy narratives, amazing feats, and rewarding tasks. But what if certain games have become something more?

They all lived in their own little clouds.

He could travel in his mind, though. He did it all the time.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

I would disappear, only to come home reinvented. I would be unrecognizable upon my fleeting returns. This fantasy was realized, but not quite the way I had intended. In deciding to remake myself, I managed to avoid the fact that I would also, by definition, have to erase what self there was to begin with. I began to wonder, many years later, if total erasure had been my intent all along.

Pale as the moon I lie in fruitless fantasy.

The destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of the human race, but many people seem to be convinced that even if humans should disappear, they will be brought to life again by the hand of their god. This idea, however, is nothing more than fantasy. The human race will not be born again. When the people on the earth have died out, there will be no God or Buddha to rescue them.

Cette nuit je vais grimper à la lune, m'installer dans le croissant comme dans un hamac et je n'aurais absolument pas besoin de dormir pour rêver

Cette nuit, je vais grimper la lune, m'installer dans le croissant comme dans un hamac et je n'aurai absolument pas besoin de dormir pour rêver.

Ill show you a Sweet dream

Impossible. An old elf swearword.

It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living.

It can drive you insane thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

Imposibil. O veche injuratura din limba elfa.

Entering the Hedge is dangerous for anyone, but especially for changelings, who risk enslavement once again whenever they brave the Thorns.

Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. —J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1937)

The dragons are throwing cars at me!

Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)

Feels like we're driving into Mordor," Hamish muttered. "What's Mordor?" Syme asked. "Never mind.

Mercedes Lackey,

Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted.

They were both dreamed only by the one they would have liked to be for each other.