Ray Bradbury Quotes

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

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

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

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

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

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

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.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

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.

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

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 think escapism is really important.

A daydream is an evasion.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

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

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

I daydream all the time.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.