Quotes about Reality
Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.
- Karl Barth
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
- Livy
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
- Marquis de Sade
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
- Thomas Merton
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
- Epictetus
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
- Anais Nin
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
- Donald Miller