Able Quote by Carl Sagan

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even…

— Stendhal

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played…

— Arthur Koestler

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

— Rick Yancey

Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to…

— Kim Brooks

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people…

— Ray Bradbury

“It’s interesting to observe the fascination children have with fear. Whether it’s movies, books, or Halloween, part of them wants to be scared at…

— Joe Kita

Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there's a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don't necessarily share yours,…

— David Brin

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear,…

— Guillermo del Toro

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

— Vera Nazarian

“Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the…

— Libba Bray

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably…

— Mariella Frostrup