33 Quotes About Make Believe

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in! Shel Silverstein

They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass .. and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and his paralyzed brother Kuttappen (although he was fast asleep). He greeted them with the utmost courtesy. He addressed them all as Kochamma [an honorific title for a woman] and gave them fresh coconut water to drink. He chatted to them about the weather. The river. The fact that in his opinion coconut trees were getting shorter by the year. As were the ladies in Ayemenem. He introduced them to his surly hen. He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled them each a little wooden spoon. It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. [emphasis mine] It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. . Arundhati Roy

There are things that make no sense, that seem unreal, that can’t be grasped or understoodor explained, that maybe don’t even exist… And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives. Isn’t it strange? Richelle E. Goodrich

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. Criss Jami

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides ... Muse

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness. Richelle E. Goodrich

Depths of Friendship...under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold... Muse

If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (“He did not know that she knew”) Erik Pevernagie

We all live partially in reality and partially in a world of make-believe. Marty Rubin

And then I did the best thing I knew to do with the strange concoction of sadness and hope brewing inside me. I prayed. I prayed for the people whose initials were on those slivers. Not just for those people, but for the cave people before them and the robot people after them. For real orphans. For all the people who have lost shoes in the road. For kids whose parents play war. For Toodie Bleu Skies and Toodi Bleu Nordenhauer, for M. B. McClean and Douglas Nordenhauer. And all the people who need to find the magic in Make Believe. That, I figured, just about covered the whole world. Amber McRee Turner

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be determined. You can make it in life. You can make all your dreams come true. Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP...Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles. Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else... Sanhita Baruah

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up! " In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising. A.S. Neill

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed. A.S. Neill

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. Frida Kahlo

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end. Virginia Woolf

There it is, ” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [.] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head. Marisha Pessl

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me... Muse

This girl had been looking on with her hair hanging over her face, only partly hiding a cruel-looking scar; her eyes shone with hatred. Not necessarily hatred of your father or of puppets or the other children, but a hatred of make-believe, which did not heal, but was only useful to the people who didn't need it. Helen Oyeyemi

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell.. Muse

The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest... Muse

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. Melody Carstairs

Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring a foundation of disappointment, of uncertainty. Sara Baume

My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero. Orhan Pamuk

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. Solange Nicole

Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born. Starhawk

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story. Michael Connelly

I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse Joss Stirling

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. Ramakrishna