Fantasy Quotes

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of...

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and ...

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining

Where do you get dreams like this?

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He...

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wh...

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. what a stupid lamb. what a sick, masochistic lion.

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marbl...

The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for th...

the siren song/called silence

I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years ...

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior o...

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "The...

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...

I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?"I would, actually, but I d...

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart.But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew...

There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my bo...

Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep...

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the...

It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew ...

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

Who would you be but who you are?

It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in...

- "Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, ...

Humans need fantasy to be human.

Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it i...

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly ...

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths,...

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes...

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you es...

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's ...

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry...

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten...

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed fr...

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy ...

Farther down the riverbank sat a young man dressed all in white. He was the only person in sight. Hi...

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna ...

Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda...

It was a Guild of Assassins, after all. Black was what you wore. The night was black and so were you...

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it ...

Rincewind sighed, and padded around the base of the tower toward the Library.Towards where the Libra...

I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I ...

In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anyt...

You totally ruined my life, you know that?' said Rincewind hotly. 'I could have really made it as a ...

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, bu...

When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cotta...

Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things...

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept...

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head...

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, ...

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantasti...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention’s father left home on th...

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of real...

A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their c...

In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was ...

What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive what...

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom...

I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I kno...

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a ga...

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England...

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by ...

A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like ...

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need ...

The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard ...

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the l...

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, th...

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major el...

Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's a...

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when t...

One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certai...

Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fict...

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has ...

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger long...

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know...

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantas...

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification ...

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outla...