Quotes About Reality

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

I hate possibilities—God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.

Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them face reality. Teachers and schools lie to children and parents all the time.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

It's very hard to make money. I think people don't get that message.

The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons regard as a sacred fact – the lie that has been inculcated around a mother's knee – is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence.

All political parties in conjunction with media and business tycoons are making fools to people by playing drama over Covid-19 because there is no Corona virus in reality

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.

the Company 'had long cast covetous eyes on [Punjab]'108. Ranjit Singh did not miss this reality.

satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149).

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Animals have attained such perfection in their existence, while man has never known such tranquility. I have always believed that animals listen to one perfect voice — nature's voice — and do as it bids them. We, on the other hand, listen only to ourselves, and we do as we please. Our ego, our pride, is generally our instructor, instead of reality, intellect, or even common sense. We live our lives superficially, led by our personalities.

Some things have to be believed in to be seen.

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

But a man lies to himself, and never more so than he does about a woman.

But in the real world-in which even academics perish-war often changes everything. The blood-drunk killer is rarely disarmed by the man who lives in books-or by the eternal adolescent clinging to the lie that all men want peace.

War was a sorrier business than storybooks told.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. —CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

I always had the idea that when I was older I'd get frightfully clever. I'd get awfully learned, I'd get jolly sage. People would come to me for advice. But nobody comes to me for anything, and I don't know a bloody thing.