Quotes about Reality

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

Everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.