90 Inspiring Fantasy Fiction Quotes

Fantasy fiction has long been a captivating genre that transports readers to magical realms, filled with enchantment, bravery, and wisdom. Within these tales, words have the power to inspire and ignite our imaginations, leaving a lasting impact long after the journey ends. Whether it's a single line that lingers in your mind or a passage that resonates deeply, fantasy fiction quotes have a way of capturing the essence of human experience in extraordinary worlds. Join us as we explore a curated collection of the top 90 inspiring fantasy fiction quotes that span different realms and eras, offering insights, hope, and a touch of magic to our everyday lives.

1. “I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?” - Bill Willingham

2. “If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.” - Glen Cook

3. “And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.” - Robert Jordan

4. “There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life. It was no reason related to that, it was no reason that either of them quite knew. Crissand had simply risen on his horizon like the sun of his banner...and that was that....They were together, and there was a great deal right with the day simply in that.” - C.J. Cherryh

5. “But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady” - Alexandra Adornetto

6. “There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get” - Charles de Lint

7. “Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.” - Cinda Williams Chima

8. “Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads,Its master's step is brisk;The Sword of Wisdom lightens loadsBut adds unto their risk.” - Fred Saberhagen

9. “Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.” - Fredrik Nael

10. “Segala hal yang dikatakan Komandan mengenai Orde adalah kebenaran yang tidak dilebih-lebihkan. Orde memang bersinonim dengan kebaikan. Orde menghargai kemajuan. Orde mencintai kehidupan. Orde bahkan mengajarkan pertobatan. Semua yang dijabarkan di dalam Kitab pada dasarnya akan berakhir pada kebahagiaan, pun setelah kematian.Akan tetapi Orde dan Kitab adalah takdir. Yang tidak dapat dibantah dan harus diterima semua orang dengan pasrah.Sama seperti penglihatanku, Orde tidak memberikan pilihan.” - Fredrik Nael

11. “All stories are ultimately about the fall.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

12. “If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost” - Greg Hamerton

13. “But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?""Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise.” - Ekaterina Sedia

14. “When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate.Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious—you can't ignore it, so don't even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a lot to dislike—his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichés—elves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic rings—have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulps—via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabiński and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and I could go on—the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations.Of course I'm not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mine—that would cut my social circle considerably. Nor would I claim that it's impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in it—Michael Swanwick's superb Iron Dragon's Daughter gives the lie to that. But given that the pleasure of fantasy is supposed to be in its limitless creativity, why not try to come up with some different themes, as well as unconventional monsters? Why not use fantasy to challenge social and aesthetic lies?Thankfully, the alternative tradition of fantasy has never died. And it's getting stronger. Chris Wooding, Michael Swanwick, Mary Gentle, Paul di Filippo, Jeff VanderMeer, and many others, are all producing works based on fantasy's radicalism. Where traditional fantasy has been rural and bucolic, this is often urban, and frequently brutal. Characters are more than cardboard cutouts, and they're not defined by race or sex. Things are gritty and tricky, just as in real life. This is fantasy not as comfort-food, but as challenge.The critic Gabe Chouinard has said that we're entering a new period, a renaissance in the creative radicalism of fantasy that hasn't been seen since the New Wave of the sixties and seventies, and in echo of which he has christened the Next Wave. I don't know if he's right, but I'm excited. This is a radical literature. It's the literature we most deserve.” - China Miéville

15. “But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.” - Terry Goodkind

16. “How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?” - Carolyn Turgeon

17. “I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.” - Carolyn Turgeon

18. “Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in” - Carolyn Turgeon

19. “there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.” - Carolyn Turgeon

20. “Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again.” - Bryan Butvidas

21. “I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRETENDED SHE WAS YOU. illutions- aprilynne pike” - Aprilynne Pike

22. “...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.” - Laurie J. Marks

23. “Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.” - Janet E. Morris

24. “With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.” - Carlyle Labuschagne

25. “He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn’t exactly place in a very disturbing way.These were not his memories.” - Angelo Tsanatelis

26. “It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.” - Angelo Tsanatelis

27. “A weapon needs a wielder; it should not be permitted to start its own fights.""You are not my wielder; you are naught, a forgotten ghost, not even a memory.""Maybe, but you are still a weapon.” - Angelo Tsanatelis

28. “I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person” - John C Wright

29. “I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.” - Erika M. Szabo

30. “Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.” - Erika M. Szabo

31. “If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF on the walls, she probably would have been killed on the night of the full moon.” - Barbara Hambly

32. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Michael Scott

33. “The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” - Neil Gaiman

34. “I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?” - Jim Starlin

35. “I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.” - Peter S. Beagle

36. “Apalah gunanya impian bila tidak diwujudkan?” - Fredrik Nael

37. “There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.” - Laxmi Hariharan

38. “You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.” - Jim Butcher

39. “Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.” - Karsten Knight

40. “Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.” - Jason Ellis

41. “To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin” - Jeff Shanley

42. “We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight along,look yourself upward an additional way to obtain foods,and then do a similar for the next water for the south.” - Chayada Welljaipet

43. “There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.” - Neil Gaiman

44. “No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.” - Aaron A. A. Smith

45. “Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths.” - Larry Itejere

46. “In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.” - Eve Forward

47. “It had become their creation, and they all would know it.” - Evan Meekins

48. “Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.” - Evan Meekins

49. “Without your own inner beast tamed ye can never tame the wild ones around ye!” - Jennifer Silverwood

50. “Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.” - Jennifer Silverwood

51. “The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.” - Evan Meekins

52. “Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart were able to tell the two apart. That kind of justice was swift. It was only called upon afer mercy and morals fail. It was the darkest form of goodness known to anyone, even the gods, and required only the strongest, most daring men to bring about.” - Evan Meekins

53. “He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.” - Evan Meekins

54. “The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.” - Evan Meekins

55. “If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.” - Evan Meekins

56. “Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library” - Evan Meekins

57. “the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.” - Evan Meekins

58. “there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” - Evan Meekins

59. “Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.” - Evan Meekins

60. “Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.” - Evan Meekins

61. “War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.” - Evan Meekins

62. “Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.” - Evan Meekins

63. “the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.” - Evan Meekins

64. “Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.” - Evan Meekins

65. “it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.” - Evan Meekins

66. “Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.” - Evan Meekins

67. “Hate did not give way to heroism.” - Evan Meekins

68. “We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” - Evan Meekins

69. “Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.” - Evan Meekins

70. “Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.” - Melody Manful

71. “Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.” - Terry Pratchett

72. “Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.” - George R.R. Martin

73. “Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The whole kingdom of Fantasy sits upon foundations of forgotten dreams - Endless Story).” - Michael Ende

74. “You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.” - Daniel McHugh

75. “Winter Liar" by Liam Doyle the IncubusWhat come once here will never come again,no matter monument nor memory;all sunwarmed green succumbs to winter's wind.And you, my love, were also my best friend,and had your life to live. The tragedywas not just my youth's recklessness, althoughI trusted much to impulse, whim, freedom,a destiny excluding doom. Frankly,youth can be our insanity. But now I'm curedof that fever, although the price was high;and chilly April wind can only sighat my regrets, yet sun will brighten wind so,one knows that soon green stirs, and wild bees hum.And summer once more will make winter liar,but I won't warm. You're all I'll ever desire.” - Juliet Dark

76. “Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

77. “Even though you distance yourself,you always look out for me,it makes me want to get into more trouble” - Dahlia Lu

78. “The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.” - C.G. Rousing

79. “What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.” - Gregory Maguire

80. “If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline’s fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?” - Kristen Reed

81. “The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.” - Peter S. Beagle

82. “Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” - Kristen Reed

83. “Looks like my superpowers don’t come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails.” - Jennifer Silverwood

84. “How did they go from Braveheart to Brigadoon in less than five minutes?” - Jennifer Silverwood

85. “I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.” - Jennifer Silverwood

86. “It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.” - Jennifer Silverwood

87. “He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine.” - Colleen Houck

88. “Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?” - Robert Jordan

89. “I adore you, Chiru. I want to show you in ways words can't express” - Augusta Li

90. “Chapter 8 - The Rescue Team: "Timbroke Hall was completely dark. A creaking shutter opened and closed to the rhythm of a howling, north wind. It bore a cold reminder of the harsh winter coming quickly this year. The children crept up the rock stairs to the familiar wooden doors at the front of the building. Ariana led them around the porch to a side door according to her, was never locked. The broken handle dangled loosely and offered free entrance. The team cautiously crossed the threshold of the old hall into pitch blackness. An owl hooted and the sound of large wings flapping reverberated around them. Camilla startled, cried out a fearful yelp causing everyone to jump. Hannah reflexively covered Camilla’s mouth until she was certain nothing more would slip out. “Quiet,” whispered Jess in an angry tone directed at Hannah. “It wasn’t me,” whispered Hannah pointing down at Camilla. “Sorry,” whispered Camilla apologetically.” - M.K. McDaniel