Fantasy Quotes

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

Stories are wild creatures; when you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world

She had always found that the world opened up when one had something to run toward and not just away from

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Invisible threads are the strongest ties

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

Magic happens when you step outside the script that life hands you and write your own lines

We read to know we are not alone

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination

When you compare fantasy to reality, fantasy has better press agents

What is now proved was once only imagined

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world

I believe that dreams are stronger than death. That hope always triumphs over despair. That laughter is the only cure for grief

Stories have changed, and changed me. They have the power to transform both teller and listener alike

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—it gives a lovely light

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere

We live as we dream—alone

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it

The longest journey is the journey inward

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be

The moment you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

The creative adult is the child who survived

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity

You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone

I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference

I warn you, I refuse to be an object of wonder. I will not tolerate admirers who will gaze at me and speculate on how it feels to have wings

Remember that hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting

The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can