Quotes About Fantasy

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash.

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Reality always seemed pale in comparison with the stark beauty of fantasy.

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

was the deep, cold distinction between fantasy and reality: No consequences.

In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.

some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven't seen them

Ho letto tutti gli autori usuali, Austen, Brontë, Eliot, Hardy, ma Dickens è come un paese meraviglioso dove le persone sono più brillanti e vivaci, più comiche e più tragiche e in loro compagnia senti che il mondo è più ricco e fantastico di quanto immaginavi

En terwijl de trein me wegbracht, kwam ik terecht op planeten waar het altijd nacht is, op roltrappen waar geen einde aan komt en tussen echtgenotes die hun mannen doodslaan met bevroren lamsbouten. Dat was puur genot.

Nu po?i s? vezi zâne dac? nu e?ti z?natic.

As for the individual track being the "natural unit of music," that's a fantasy.

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.