Quotes about Reality

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

I became a conservative after a deeply profound spiritual awakening at which point I repented of my anger, and God allowed me to see reality.

O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.