Quotes about Reality
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.
— Andy Stanley
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
— Oswald Chambers
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
— Kevin Hart
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
— Alice Hoffman
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
— Alice Hoffman
It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.
— Alice Hoffman
As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.
— Alice Hoffman
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
— Alice Hoffman
Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.
— Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
— Alice Hoffman