Quotes about Fantasy

And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.

or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit

generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.