Quotes About Fantasies

#1. He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.

Maya Banks

#2. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

P.C. Cast

#3. Deep within we all have fantasies. Some we may want to share and others so dark we are likely to never tell anyone.

Sally V Teller

#4. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.

Cat Clarke

#5. But since C had disappeared, the fantasies that obsessed me were all the worst things I could imagine at any given time.

Alexandra Kleeman

#6. In his dissertation about Vitriol, he would have to include a long chapter on sex. After all, so many neuroses and psychoses had their origins in sex. He believed that fantasies were electrical impulses from the brain, which, if not realized, released their energy into other areas.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace

#8. In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Camryn Manheim

#9. Yum." She smacks her lips and mimes making a cat claw. She leans into me and whispers, "I am so going to be visiting him one-handed tonight in my fantasies.

Lauren Blakely

#10. I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

Sean Bean

#11. Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Dorothy Norman

#12. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.

Faith Sullivan

#13. The planet Mars
crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms
has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

David Grinspoon

#14. exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

Salman Rushdie

#16. You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

Adam Mansbach

#17. He did like his sexual fantasies to have a little more adrenaline than most folk.

Lyn Gala

#18. I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to watch and have fantasies of who might go where. The reality is, guys will change teams.

Andrew Ference

#19. When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

Bob Proctor

#20. We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

Bill Ayers

#21. I can't run around falling in love with fantasies.

Kirsten Miller

#22. The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

John D. Voelker

#23. All girls have sex with a stranger fantasies and fantasies played out are healthier than those that have been left to fester and go mouldy. When we look back, we don't regret the things we have done, only the things left undone, the things we wanted to do and never did.

Chloe Thurlow

#24. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#25. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

#27. I've always had these fantasies about being in a normal family in which the parents come to town and their adult daughter spends their entire visit daydreaming of suicide. I'm here to tell you that dreams really do come true.

Sarah Vowell

#28. We all need fantasies now and then. Sometimes believing our lives can be different is the only thing that keeps us going.

Leisa Rayven

#29. If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Audre Lorde

#30. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews

#31. People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren't just fantasies, you know. They're so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

Mahbod Seraji

#32. The sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison.

Daniel Polansky

#33. No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

William Osler

#34. Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Daniel Craig

#35. Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Howard Hughes

#36. I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Charlie Trotter

#37. The night it falls
The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For plot demands
That dreams be sown
The fantasies
I have alone
The words come fast
They flow like wine
I am the midnight writer...

Virginia Alison

#38. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Louise J. Kaplan

#39. Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

#40. A mask tempts the wearer to play out carnal fantasies and, come daylight, the perfume of a stranger's sex on your flesh and clothes can be blamed or thanked on the metamorphosis stirred by the mystery of the mask.

Chloe Thurlow

#41. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

S. N. Goenka

#42. Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Edgar Friedenberg

#43. We eat healthy because we want to feel healthy - fantasies of living longer should not trump the importance of living stronger.

Jason Manheim

#44. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She

Marissa Meyer

#45. The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Russell Smith

#46. All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

Brian Perkins

#47. She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

Ian McEwan

#48. I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Siri Hustvedt

#49. If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.

Brandan Roberston

#50. I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

T.J. Dixon

#51. A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

#52. She talks like she thinks I'm a schoolboy with fantasies of heroes who get the girl and ride off into the sunset. What kind of world does she think I grew up in?

Kendare Blake

#53. Had ideas, crazy, late-night fantasies strung together like a paper-clip chain.

Amy Garvey

#54. ...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.

Kerry Alan Denney

#55. Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

Aberjhani

#56. For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.

G.K. Chesterton

#57. If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Fran Lebowitz

#58. I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are ... seductive. And I like words because they can contain ... fantasies.

James Lusarde

#59. From From the Journal of Crispin

There is a monotonous babbling in our dreams
That makes them our dependent heirs, the heirs
Of dreamers buried in our sleep, and not
The oncoming fantasies of better birth.

Wallace Stevens

#60. Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at the base of the mountain instead. There aren't as many obstacles, or avalanches, or unexpected delays. But they'll never be able to see the view from the top.

Katie Kacvinsky

#61. I know what Jack looks like naked. The image has been burned into my brain all these years, haunting my dreams and fantasies, but he's all that I remembered and a bag of chips. The party size.

Heather R. Blair

#62. Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.

Christina Lauren

#63. The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam ...

J.G. Ballard

#64. Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

Laura Antoniou

#65. Movies are romantic fantasies.

Ira Sachs

#66. Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#67. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.

Jeff Shaara

#68. A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

John Milton

#69. Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.

Anne McCaffrey

#70. A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

Mark Rubinstein

#71. I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

M.J. Rose

#72. Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

Aleksandar Hemon

#73. There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

George R R Martin

#74. Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

Kate Atkinson

#75. We are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.

Alan W. Watts

#76. I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Anne Lamott

#77. I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Christopher Hitchens

#78. Spend some memorable moments in London, under the eve of exciting surroundings. Let your fantasies come true during the sessions of Oriental massage London. Your companion during massage session will give you extra high shots and strokes for the fulfillment of your sultry dreams.

Alex Hayden

#79. Those were my fifth-year fantasies: kisses and blood and Snow ridding the world of me.

Rainbow Rowell

#80. I would argue that - fantasies aside - the majority of men are monogamous from the chin up.

Stephen King

#81. I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.

Hugh Hefner

#82. This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad stories seldom ever buoy the spirit. We all paused to take in the sad news.

J.W. Lord

#83. Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Masashi Kishimoto

#84. Everyone has fantasies and the variations in these visions of passion vary widely. It is a natural experience that occurs in every human being. Having a rich fantasy life is not only enjoyable, but psychologically "normal.

K. Kiker

#85. It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Mitch Albom

#86. I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

Bell Hooks

#87. She took a deep breath, inhaling the musty smell of books. Truth be told, she thought the smell was kind of sexy. She'd had fantasies of having sex in a library. That was probably what happened when one spent those crucial hormone-filled years surrounded by books instead of boys.

Caroline Hanson

#88. That's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

David Sedaris

#89. That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

Roger Ebert

#90. The idea made Mahlia's chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#91. I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

Florence Welch

#92. For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

Frantz Fanon

#93. This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my house.

Richelle Mead

#94. Fantasies are the stories in which the soul becomes the lead

Rusti Fae

#95. I know in that moment that I'll never be able to tell him no to anything. I want to be the woman to make his fantasies real.

Georgia Cates

#96. Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Michael Crichton

#97. So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

Tiffany Baker

#98. In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively. Even

C. G. Jung

#99. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

Jonathan Gottschall

#100. She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.

A. Zavarelli