6,395 Quotes About Fantasy
- Author George R.R. Martin 2005
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Where the king goes, the realm follows-Catlyn Stark-
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- Author Karen Marie Moning 1 Darkfever
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It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
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- Author Jude Morgan
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Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
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- Author J.B. Lion
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Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings.
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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The same virtues, in the end, the same virtue (love), are required throughout, and fantasy (self) can prevent us from seeing a blade of grass just as it can prevent us from seeing another person. An increasing awareness of 'goods' and the attempt (usually only partially successful) to attend to them purely, without self, brings with it an increasing awareness of the unity and interdependence of the moral world. One-seeking intelligence is the image of faith.
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- Author Lori R. Lopez
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One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.
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- Author J.B. Lion
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Monster? Monster, you say?” He scratched his chest, blood dripping from what seemed to be an old wound. “No, my friend. I have SEEN real monsters. I have faced real darkness, heart beating out of your chest with death all around you. The stench of piss and shit as men empty themselves in their final moments. I have experienced real terror. Terror, a simple man like you, could never fathom
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- Author J.B. Lion
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You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.
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