Quotes About Reality

I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

The Donald Fraser of The Story Girl was Donald Montgomery, and Neil Campbell was David Murray, of Bedeque. The only embroidery I permitted myself in the telling of the tale was to give Donald a horse and cutter. In reality, what he had was a half-broken steer, hitched to a rude, old wood-sled, and it was with this romantic equipage that he hied him over to Richmond Bay to propose to Nancy!

Out of your world perhaps, Susan — but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

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

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?

Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" "No." "Oh! Oh, Miss – Marilla, how much you miss!

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I reckon when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.

Pero me alegro de que hoy no llueva porque será más fácil estar alegre y vencer los contratiempos con un día de sol. Y presiento que tendré un montón de dificultades que superar. Es muy fácil eso de leer sobre las penas de los demás e imaginarse a uno vencer las dificultades heroicamente, pero no es tan sencillo cuando son realidad, ¿no les parece?

Do you know, my arm must be black and blue from the elbow up, for I've pinched myself so many times today. Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I'd be afraid it was all a dream. Then I'd pinch myself it see if it was real- until suddenly I remembered that even supposing it was only a dream I'd better go on dreaming as long as I could; so I stopped pinching.

you must learn to keep on this side of the borderline between the real and the unreal. Then the power to escape at will into a beautiful world of your own will help you amazingly through the hard places of life.

there is a good deal more prose than poetry in life.

Anne tried to picture Mrs. Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.

Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this . . . seventeen never knows it.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. When I was seventeen, Anne, I didn't think forty-five would find me a white-haired little old maid with nothing but dreams to fill my life.

I don't believe I could live at times if I didn't pretend things.

Hayaller s?k s?k gerçekleÅŸmez, deÄŸil mi? GerçekleÅŸseydi güzel olmaz m?yd??

Has creado en tu imaginación algo que crees que es el amor y esperas que la realidad se parezca a ello.

You set your heart too much on things, Anne," said Marilla, with a sigh. "I'm afraid there'll be a great many disappointments in store for you through life." "Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them

Bunlar? kendine söylemekle baÅŸka insanlardan duymak aras?nda fark var. dedi Anne aÄŸlayarak. 'Bir ÅŸeyin öyle olduÄŸunu bilsen bile, baÅŸka insanlar?n kesin olarak öyle olduÄŸunu düÅŸünmediÄŸini ümit etmekten kendini alam?yorsun.

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

Marilla somut gerçeÄŸin güvenli yolu dururken, soyutluÄŸun ÅŸüpheli patikalar?na girmeyecekti.