Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

We all live best in our imaginations.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

Man lives by imagination.

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

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Movies are different from real life.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.