Quotes about Reality

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Well, I don't know, said the Story Girl thoughtfully. I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are , and true things that are not , but might be.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood repeated - the same disappointment she had felt when she had first seen the chill sparkle instead of the purple splendor she had anticipated. That's not my idea of a diamond, she had said.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil.