Quotes about Fantasy

Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.