Fantasy Quotes
1557 quotes by 1144 authors
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The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
— Ray Bradbury
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I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free…
— Lucinda Williams
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become…
— Lynn Johnston
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and…
— Carl Jung
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is…
— Carl Jung
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
— Sappho
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Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you…
— George H. W. Bush
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Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and…
— Garry Kasparov
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
— George R. R. Martin
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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might…
— George Soros
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate…
— Maurice Sendak
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When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
— Fiona Apple
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There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday…
— Denis Waitley
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
— Edward Albee
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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