Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

We all live best in our imaginations.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

I used to build dreams about you.

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

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.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

I'm in my dream world.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.