"The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?"
Read quote
19 likes
Fantasy quotes
Fantasy
468 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Fantasy
Browse quotes that often appear alongside fantasy — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Fantasy quotes (page 2 of 24)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite."
Read quote
18 likes
"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove."
Read quote
16 likes
"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies."
Read quote
15 likes
"Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out."
Read quote
13 likes
"Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy"
Read quote
13 likes
"I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing."
Read quote
12 likes
"I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard"
Read quote
12 likes
"We live in our fantasies and endure our realities."
Read quote
12 likes
"When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity."
Read quote
10 likes
"They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth."
Read quote
10 likes
"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic."
Read quote
9 likes
"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
Read quote
9 likes
"If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy."
Read quote
8 likes
"That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain."
Read quote
8 likes
"All fiction is autobiographical fantasy."
Read quote
8 likes
"A single fantasy can transform a million realities."
Read quote
8 likes
"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
Read quote
7 likes
"Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares."
Read quote
7 likes
"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
Read quote
7 likes