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Quotes About Reality

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
~ A. E. Housman
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.
~ George Harrison
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
~ Mason Cooley
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.
~ Steven Morrissey
Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.
~ John C. Maxwell
He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
~ Holly Black
In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.
~ Indira Gandhi
Hope is not an illusion.
~ Cassandra Clare
One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.
~ Shane Claiborne
I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
~ Sayed Kashua
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
~ Claude Monet
I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
~ Kathy Bates
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
~ John Green
You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?
~ Stephen King
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
~ Craig Sager
When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
~ Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress
Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I'm ignoring behind me. Instead, it's most certain to drop it on top of me.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Dreams, Ours mysterious Dreams, they can be Reality
~ Erico Quiambao
Our Dreams, not just a Dreams, It can be reality.
~ Erico Quiambao
The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette