Fantasy
Quotes - Four doors of the mind
“I
like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living.”
―
Dr. Seuss
“Stories
of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
―
Terry Pratchett
“Fantasy
is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy,
don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind
and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape,
and to take as many people with us as we can!”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“The
moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J.
M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Perhaps
the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves
through according to their need.
First
is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its
pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have
hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly,
someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's
way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second
is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to
heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no
healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals
most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third
is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it
hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are
times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must
leave reality behind.
Last
is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead,
or so we have been told.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“It's
the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to
think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him
a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“When
I was your age, television was called books.”
―
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Imagination
is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
―
Albert Einstein
“It's
so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel
like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you
want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
―
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“Do
not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“They
can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
―
George R.R. Martin
“The
sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage
chimney like a crooked finger.”
―
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“I
have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and
since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of
scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be
scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if
he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and
prison-walls?”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Come
away, O human child!
To
the waters and the wild
With
a faery, hand in hand,
For
the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
―
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“She
moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
―
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“I
have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town
of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity
and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most
people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of
during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the
minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“What
we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Closed
in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is
missing out.”
―
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Who
are you?
Are
you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have
you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I
have. I am fucking crazy.
But
I am free.”
―
Lana Del Rey
“You’re
a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded.
"Something beautiful and full of monsters."
“Beautiful
and full of monsters?"
“All
the best stories are.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“There
are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of
the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a
lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally
stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The
other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung
Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
―
John Rogers
“That's
you," Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer,
descended of Wrath son of Wrath."
"But
you'll always be Butch to us," Rhage cut in. "As well as hard-ass.
Smart-ass. Royal pain in the ass. You know, whatever the situation calls for. I
think as long as there's an ASS in there, it'll be accurate."
"How
about bASStard?" Z suggested.
"Nice.
I feel that.”
―
J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed
“When
is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
―
Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
“I
have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
