Fantasy Quotes - Page 15

• We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Sarcastic, Falling In Love, Valentine

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• My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

  J. Lynn

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Guy

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• Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

  Carl Jung

  Fun, Creative, Creative Work

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• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Selfish, Exercise, Earth

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fate, Compassion, Blind

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

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• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Intuition, Wish, Fiction

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

  Alan Price

  Emotional, Fantastic, Classical Music

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  Ed O'Brien

  Country, Fantastic, Found

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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• Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Thinking, Religion

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

  Kathy Acker

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.210, Grove Press

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Eye, Ordinary World

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• The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Prayer, Lakes

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• Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Stars, Moving

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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• Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.

  Thom Yorke

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Believe, Wonder, Should

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• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  Eric Hiscock

  Girl, Memories, War

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• I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm the kind of guy who just randomly gets in fights. Yeah, I do it all the time. But, not really.

  Robert Pattinson

  Character, Fighting, Guy

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• Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Memorable, Anchors

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• Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Writing, Magic, Use

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• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  Kate Winslet

  Hate, Wish, Body

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Gestures, Way

  "Vladimir Putin interview: Ten interesting things the Russian leader said". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 4, 2013.

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