Quotes About Reality

Today, our task remains the same, no matter its difficulty or the magnitude of the challenge. Some of us must become poets, but we all must bear witness. Make the suffering real and force the world to pay attention to it, and not place that suffering all at the feet of Donald Trump, but understand it as the inevitable outcome in a country that continues to lie to itself.

But the lie's most pernicious effect when it comes to our history is to malform events to fit the story whenever America's innocence is threatened by reality.

On one level, America and the South are one and the same, both are haunted and vexed by the macabre reality of the dead, the suffering beneath the country's and region's feet, and by the lie of their innocent role in it all. That innocence allowed the bodies to continue to amass.

perfection. The lie is the story that warps reality in this country, which means that resisting it involves telling in each moment a truer story, one that casts the lie into relief, showing it for what it is. And

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics ' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.

Human love is greater than divine love…divine love is at worst an illusion, at best a dream for some imaginary future time. Human love is here and now.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it