Quotes About Reality

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.