Reality Quotes

Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.