Quotes About Reality

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

We live on the leash of our senses.