Quotes About Reality

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

All our geese are swans.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

Truth has no beginning.

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.

Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.