reality Quotes

“if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:reality imagination

“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:reality

“the real world is where the monsters are.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

topic:reality world

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:reality appearance

“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively — because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:reality art

“They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:life reality pain pleasure suffering

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:love reality

“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:reality imagination

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality courage virtue

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

topic:life reality

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