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Quotes About Reality

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
~ Lucretius
Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.
~ Lauren Mackler
Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.
~ Mike Tyson
I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.
~ Erma Bombeck
The thing I fear comes upon me
~ Eric Butterworth
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
~ Isabel Allende
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
~ Ava DuVernay
You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.
~ Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
~ Frederick Lenz
...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.
~ Deborah Digges
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
~ Fay Weldon
Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.
~ Gary Busey
The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
~ Herbert Marcuse
I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.
~ James Williams
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.
~ Jo Nesbo
We feel secure with things we can see or touch.
~ Deepak Chopra
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
~ Alice Walker
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
~ Gertrude Stein
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.
~ Unknown
There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?
~ Dada Bhagwan
Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.
~ Shannon L. Alder