80+ Inspiring Quotes On Fantasy – Fantasy Quotes and Sayings
Quotes on Fantasy
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” —Terry Pratchett
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” —Albert Einstein
“When I was your age, television was called books.” —William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.” —Walt Disney
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” —Lloyd Alexander
“Humanity’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.” —Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” —Dr. Seuss
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.” —Ian McEwan, Atonement
“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” —Walt Disney
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” —Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.” —Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” —Dr. Seuss
“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” —Anonymous
“You have to hold on to your fantasy.” —Betsey Johnson
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind.” —Terry Pratchett
“My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.” —Claes Oldenburg
“Let yourself unwind and get lost in the garden of your mind.” —Anonymous
“I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.” —Lady Gaga
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” —Lloyd Alexander
“I live in a world of fantasy. So keep your reality away from me.” —Anonymous
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou
“When someone told me I lived in a fantasy land, I nearly fell off my unicorn.” —Anonymous
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
“If you don’t turn your life into a fantasy story, you just become a part of someone else’s fantasy story.” —Terry Pratchett
“Your mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mind acts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.” —Zig Ziglar
“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” —Carl Jung
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” —Francisco Goya
“Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.” —Elizabeth Moon
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
“Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.” —Fran Lebowitz
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” —Terry Pratchett
“I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.” —Lady Gaga
“I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.” —Jennifer Lopez
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou
“Like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” —Dr. Seuss
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” —Walt Disney
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” —Iris Murdoch
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” —Carl Jung
“I’d like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.” —Paul Gauguin
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.” —Francisco Goya
“The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.” —Hugh Hefner
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” —Terry Pratchett
“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
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” —Terry Pratchett
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” —Dr. Seuss
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Fantasy is escapism, but wait… Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy – the ability to envisage the world in many different ways – is one of the skills that make us human.” —Terry Pratchett
Fantasy Quotes and Sayings
“Fiction is an improvement on life.” —Charles Bukowski
“Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains.” —Pat Conroy
“I’ve always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.” —Terry Goodkind
“Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.” —Dustin Hoffman
“Open the window of fantasy to know what reality can bring.” —Raul D. Arellano
“Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.” —Terry Brooks
“I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.” —Jeri Ryan
“Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” —Joseph Barbera
“All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.” —Brian Perkins
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.” —Lynda Barry
“When fantasy turns you on, you’re obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.” —Stewart Brand
“Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.” —Terry Pratchett
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” —Criss Jami
“We are lucky that our fantasy is for the picking. We can go back in time, stand still, or go forward.” —Lida van Bers
“People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there.” —Andy Warhol
“The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.” —Lionel Trilling
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” —Carl Jung
Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” —Walt Disney
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.” —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” —Elizabeth Moon
“People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.” —Julia Cameron
“As unrealistic as fairy tales always are, if there wasn’t a reality that we could translate into our own fantasy, in our own life, it would be boring. The interest is only because of a potential reality.” —Jan Harlan