Lewis Carroll Quotes

Fantasy is the only truth.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

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.

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

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

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

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

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

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

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

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

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