Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.
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Quotes tagged ‘Reality’
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Nothing is beautiful and true.
I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.
I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.
I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Becaus…
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
The thing about reality is it’s still there waiting for you the next morning.
In love with your potential, suffering from reality, my mind knows what my heart ignores.
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
There’s the physical world... but there’s also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It’s just as real as our world, but it’s inside.
People made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
Reality...what a concept.