Quotes About Reality

Most people never see the trap they are in.

we had to live outside our own reality for years. We often got into arguments with other people, and were occasionally criticized for being dreamers, foolish, reckless, or risky.

to illustrate the flaw in believing that money will solve all problems.

If those stories do not expand their realities, I doubt if anything will.

There is some degree of truth to the saying

It was relatively effortless, but only after I let the idea become a part of my new reality.

the investor has only lost on paper, but not in reality.

and that is the model of reality my dad subscribes to.

there is some truth to the old statement

You cling to those beliefs because that is the reality you were raised in.

We knew the journey had little to do with the world outside of us, and everything to do with the realities inside of us.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of faëry lands forlorn, where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)