Quotes About Fantasy

Uno de los hábitos de la mente es la invención de imaginaciones horribles.

I dream every night. I dream before I go to sleep, and I dream after waking up.

He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.

There is nothing more characteristic of a country than its imaginations. - Prologue to The Tiger Guest, P'u Sung-ling

There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek not truth, or even plausibility - they seek to amaze, astound. In their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. They know a system is naught but the subordination of all the aspects of the universe to one of those aspects - any one of them.

But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to dream. Their figures originate from the same sources -- the unconscious wells of fantasy-- and their grammar is the same, but they are not the spontaneous products of sleep. On the contrary their patterns are consciously controlled. And their understood function is to serve as powerful picture language for the communication of traditional wisdom.

The Fantasy is a reassurance - a promise that the peace of Paradise... is not to be lost...

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.

Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun.

Empezó a tener una leve idea de lo que quería decir, y quedó maravillado al pensar en cuántos hombres andaban por el mundo, de aspecto vulgar y tranquilo, que ocultaban fantasías exóticas y poéticas creencias, insospechadas siquiera, hasta que la enfermedad privaba al cerebro de su gobierno.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

I imagine the insides of myself sometimes-- part female, part male, part terrible dragon.

I used to pretend a lot. I'm very good at it,

Tagus! The horse-man

Beast Quest

Aduro himself had told them so.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.