Top 1200 Dark Fantasy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I don't get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It's not the way I view the tight end position.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.

I love hip-hop and R&B. People always say, "You are dark, you make dark dresses. You probably only love The Cure or Diamanda Galás." I love Diamanda Galás, but I also love Madonna, Beyoncé, and Courtney Love. They are all from different worlds, but they all evoke emotions in me. I am someone who needs emotions and needs to transmit them. If that weren't the case, I'd be better off changing professions.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.