Quotes About Reality

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Man follows only phantoms.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.