Sinclair Lewis Quotes

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

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

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.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

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

I'm often lost in my dreams.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

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)

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.