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Quotes About Fantasies

Rumors often reflect the wishes of others.
~ Anne Mallory
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
~ Anne Robinson
Sleep without pills? impossible. take pills! death? have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
~ Anne Sexton
Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.
~ Riz Ahmed
For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
~ Mike D
I'm a person who thinks realistically but has dreams and fantasies as well.
~ Granit Xhaka
My restaurant is an expression of myself - my fantasies. Where I've been, and where I want to be. I think of my cooking as very emotional.
~ Dominique Crenn
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
~ Willa Cather
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.
~ James Duval
I completely agree with the term 'adopt, don't shop.' We usually have fantasies and preferences regarding the breed of dogs, but what about the strays?
~ Daisy Shah
I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
~ Jose Maria Aznar
The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.
~ Robert Pinsky
Without realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them.
~ Robert W. Firestone
The more they give up false security, the greater the opportunity they have for real security in genuine relationships built on honest choices and priorities. Only through breaking loose from bondage and fantasies of connection can we really be free to fulfill our human potentiality.
~ Robert W. Firestone
Fantasies act to "nourish" the ego in the form of a partial gratification and thus can contribute to psychological equilibrium when security or satisfaction from the real environment is lacking.
~ Robert W. Firestone
realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them. They
~ Robert W. Firestone
As slaves to your obsessions, we know what it feels like to be impressed and bound. But at the same time we understand that thoughts like these are just idle tropes, fantasies we spin to while away the hours. Fantasies, being something that we books excel at. The real stories—the ones that happen—belong to you.
~ Ruth Ozeki
India, the new myth – a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
~ Salman Rushdie
Crear personajes que matan a los de los historiadores es privilegio de los novelistas, El motivo es que los historiadores evocan a simples fantasmas, mientras que los novelistas crean a personas de carne y hueso.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Behind manifest grandiosity, there constantly lurks depression, and behind a depressive mood there often hide unconscious (or conscious but split off) fantasies of grandiosity. In fact, grandiosity is the defense against depression, and depression is the defense against the deep pain over the loss of the self.
~ Alice Miller
Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
~ Alice Miller
For it is easier to see oneself as a criminal than to know and feel that one was, and is, an innocent victim who must be prepared at all times for torture and persecution. Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
~ Alice Miller
I remember fantasies of finding notes in old bottles washed ashore. I remember magic carpets and giant "genies" and trying to figure out what my three wishes would be. I remember not understanding why Cinderella didn't just pack up and leave, if thins were really all that bad. I remember getting a car door slammed on my finger once, and how long it took for the pain to come. I remember wondering if goats really do eat tin cans.
~ Joe Brainard