Quotes About Reality

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.

I love him but he dosen't see that we can be in love for real.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious

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

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

You can doubt anything if you think about it long enough cuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that

Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain hidden somewhere.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

At the very least marriage is a miscarriage of expectation, at its worst a wrenching disappointment with destiny.