Reality Quotes

"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me." ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte That glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds, arose before him. ~ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall. ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ~ Dune by Frank Herbert The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. ~ Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger. ~ A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf