Quotes about Fantasy

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water settles, with gentle ripples still visible where the arrows went in, the image will return. We will gaze at it once more, and know that in the Lord our labour is not in vain.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like The Lord of the Rings is a gift of divine grace, an opening of the curtain that veils Heaven to earthly eyes, a tiny telepathic contact with the Mind of God.