Quotes About Reality

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The essence of man is imperfection.

There is no perfection in humanity.

Perfection is out of the question.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.