Quotes about Reality
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
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
— Ernest Hemingway
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
— Marcus Aurelius
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
— Aldous Huxley
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
— Albert Einstein
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
— Paulo Coelho