(308 quotes found)
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
Iris Murdoch
“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
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
William Shakespeare
“Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
Germaine Greer
“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”
Manolo Blahnik
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”
Goya
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
“In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Marilyn Monroe
“If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies”
Fran Lebowitz
