Failure Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“Fantasies really ought to stay fantasies-reality only ruins them”

— Deborah Wright

“But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without…

— Alain de Botton

“Children must find not only their happiest fantasies, but their most violent and terrible nightmares. They must face their demons and laugh at them.…

— Lisa Jensen

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

— Malik Yoba

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond…

— Frantz Fanon

“We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.”

— Madeline Levine

“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography…

— Richard Dunphy

“There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (...) There is a part of my…

— Anna Sands

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

— Maya Banks

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

— Alison Gopnik

There are things that are thought of as fantasies merely because theyre far away

— Anonymous