Quotes About Reality

In reality, the world have played too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.

The world is a dangerous place (...) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair (...) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.

Living doesn't do you any good,' he replied. 'It kills us all.

glittery illusion where, like the facelifts of fading stars, nothing was permanent.

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change.

Always remember your focus determines your reality.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.