Marguerite Young Quotes

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect That no one will need to be good.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

I am glad that mankind on the whole are dreamers.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

Sometimes when you look at life really closely and you realise that things are not as smooth or as kind as they should be, then you create a world outside that matches up to your expectations or matches up to your beliefs. That's the kind of world both my brother and I have created for ourselves through stage and through entertainment.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.