Quotes about Reality
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
- George Eliot
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
- William Howard Taft
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
- CS Lewis
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
- Dorothy Sayers
There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
- Oscar Wilde
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."
- Barack Obama
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
- Walt Whitman
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
- George Bernard Shaw
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky