Alethea Kontis Quotes

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.