Fantasy Quotes - Page 16

• Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, May, Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Wish, Trials

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

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• If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Mean, Madness

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, Interesting, Would Be

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• I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Pockets, Dollars, Bucks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.144, Macmillan

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• We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

  Iris Murdoch

  Judging, World, Sometimes

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.490, Penguin

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• Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

  Joe Hill

  Reality, Waiting

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Dark, Sweat

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• I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,” he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. “You need to keep up your strength for tonight.” She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. “Why? Are you planning something special?” “I suppose I am,” he said consideringly. “It’s special every time we make love.

  Linda Howard

  Coffee, Making Love, Special

  Linda Howard (2016). “Loving Evangeline”, p.133, HQN Books

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• Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

  Shannon Hale

  Missing, Might, Facts

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• ... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

  Joe Hill

  Real, Imagination, People

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Want

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.38, Penguin

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• When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wings, People

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.

  Sara Gruen

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

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• The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

  China Mieville

  Problem, Enough, Fantastic

  "Fantasy and revolution". Interview with John Newsinger, www.marxists.org. Autumn, 2000.

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Silly, Moving

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Real, Book, Doors

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• ... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Practice, Opiates

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

  James Patterson

  Max, Ladders, Moments

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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Historical Novels, Imaginary

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• It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

  Sarah MacLean

  Hero, Writing, Quality

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.22, Harper Collins

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