Fantastical Thinking Quotes

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.