Quotes about Reality
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— John Adams
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
— John Bunyan
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
— David Platt
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.
— Dennis Prager
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