Quotes About Phantasy

#1. While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy.

William Butler Yeats

#2. No poetic phantasy
but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive.

Hilda Doolittle

#3. A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

Emile Zola

#4. The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

Sigmund Freud

#5. Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.

Alexander Kluge

#6. I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain.

George MacDonald

#7. This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.

J.M. Barrie

#8. Humans have nothing to do with angels and fairies, then why still I love you?

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Everyone has a secret.

Kristine Cuevas

#10. Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Russell Kirk

#11. Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Charles Baudelaire

#12. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Robert Baden-Powell

#13. Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

Ephraim Mirvis

#15. It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized.

Dan Brown

#16. The things you used to own, now they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Tim O'Brien

#18. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Iain Pears

#19. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Matthew 21:22).

Billy Graham

#20. Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

Carolyn Hart

#21. You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

David Spade