Quotes About Reality

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society, it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

I am the only real truth I know.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.