Top Fantastic Quotes

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said,...

Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared to conform to that genre at least to the degree that the fuller...

Fantastic Definition

(a.) Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

(a.) Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.

(a.) Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

(a.) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.

(n.) A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.

Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?''I should think so,' said Henry.'What think you of him?''Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreove...

(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world...

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, ce...

When we are no longer children we are already dead

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes sha...

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all h...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of...

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled,And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

i'm an alien and I came to this planet in order to change humanity but, unfortunately, your brain is not yet in a position to take it