Quotes about Reality

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.

He who is educated by anxiety is educated by possibility… When such a person, therefore, goes out from the school of possibility, and knows more thoroughly than a child knows the alphabet that he demands of life absolutely nothing, and that terror, perdition, annihilation, dwell next door to every man, and has learned the profitable lesson that every dread which alarms may the next instant become a fact, he will then interpret reality differently…

What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.

AÅŸk için her ÅŸey imgedir; ama imge de hakikattir.

Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former as the stage one sometimes sees in the theatre behind the real stage stands to the latter.

Love for that princess became for him the expression for an eternal love, assumed a religious character, was transfigured into a love for the Eternal Being, which did to be sure deny him the fulfilment of his love, yet reconciled him again by the eternal consciousness of its validity in the form of eternity, which no reality can take from him.

Numbers are the most dangerous of all illusions

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.