Fantasy Quotes

1557 Fantasy quotes by 1144 unique authors

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised… — Jane Yolen
When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle… — Nancy Werlin
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that… — Eve Ensler
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains. — Italo Calvino
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different… — Jane Yolen
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? — Alfred de Musset
When I was your age, television was called books. — William Goldman
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance… — William Shakespeare
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call… — Robin McKinley
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her… — Ian Mcewan
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett
Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find. — Libba Bray
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination… — Clive Barker
It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right… — Bernhard Schlink
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never… — Ingmar Bergman
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible. — Paulo Coelho
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it… — Saul Bellow
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown… — China Mieville
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a… — Michael Moorcock
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. — Walt Disney
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have?… — Thomas Pynchon

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