Quotes About Fantasy

I live in reality, unlike you. You'd rather live in a fantasy world than see people for who they really are.

I'm giddy. Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.

Tu préfères te faire des films plutôt que d'être avec quelqu'un pour de vrai

Porque vivo en el mundo real, no como tú. Prefieres habitar en un mundo de fantasía antes que ver cómo son los demás realmente.

Y hagas lo que hagas, por mucho que lo intentes, no puedes dejar de soñar.

Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.

Jenny Nimmo

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

I was thinking how I'd like to die and come back. I'd like to become invisible when I didn't want to do things, and then carry on living when I did. That way I could avoid punishment.

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

But is he awake, or just drunk, dreaming of a voluptuous conquistador maiden polishing his sword?

The future is fantasy--it doesn't exist--but the needy and demanding person you may have to give yourself to today is reality. Christianity is the reality of Christ in us, and not the fantasy.

I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.

I open my eyes. Yech, boyfriend thoughts, the kind I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's one thing to imagine Shane naked and slathered in olive oil, but another animal entirely to picture us cuddling.

Human beings invent myth, ideology, and religion as means of denying reality and replacing death with palliative fantasies. Helplessness and death are blows to human narcissism. Human beings create illusions about themselves, lie to themselves as a means to feel secure and less vulnerable.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Nothing's more fun than being carried away.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.

But dreams are imagined. They are a work of the imagination.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.

In the most common fantasy of ideal love, [...], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man whom she imagines to be more powerful, who does not depend upon her for his strength. [...] The boundedness and limits within which one can surrender, and in which one can experience abandonment and creativity, are sought in the ideal lover. (p. 120)