Quotes About Reality

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality.

The world of fantasy can always blindfold. Had I know is a gateway to the realities of life

Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.