Top 40 Fantasy Over Reality Quotes
#1. I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
Cate Blanchett
#2. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#3. Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.
Garth Ennis
#4. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.
Donald Miller
#5. 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
#6. Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today
Peter Marshall
#7. The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
Laren Grey Umphlett
#8. You're wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fairy-tales every night from existing books to kids who, funnily enough...'
'... exist, yeah, I know. I mean it's fantasy, not reality.
Jonathan Dunne
#9. I began to beg the heavens that this wasn't some depression-drenched fantasy- yet if it were, I hoped to never find reality again.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#10. Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality
Albert Hadley
#12. I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
Ernest Cline
#14. As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
Michelle M. Pillow
#15. [..] two Popsicles are talking to each other. One accuses, "You're more interested in fantasy than reality". The other responds, "I'm interested in the reality of my fantasy." Both of the Popsicles are melting of their sticks.
Maggie Nelson
#16. Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.
Zig Ziglar
#17. The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.
Lou Thesz
#18. If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in the tale, not because every fantasy was absolutely true but because no reality ever was.
Clive Barker
#19. But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.
Dexter Palmer
#21. Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
Sharon Salzberg
#22. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
Eva Hoffman
#23. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
James Mangold
#24. Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.
T.L. Rese
#25. All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
#26. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#27. Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
Bill Vaughan
#28. Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.
Walter De La Mare
#29. When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
Walt Disney
#30. I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows - you will find me there.
Sara Frost
#31. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
#32. For he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan Grabinski
#33. Did it wver throw them off, jumping so quickly between fantasy and reality?
Kim Culbertson
#34. It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
John Ortberg
#35. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.
L.E. Horn
#36. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.
Eric S. Rabkin
#37. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.
Scott Hildreth
#38. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
T.L. Rese
#39. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
