Aldous Huxley Quotes

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

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.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

True life is elsewhere

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

Daydreaming subverts the world.