Reality Quotes - Page 18

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years to drown.

For years I'd been trying to forget..., locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says."
"Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark."
"But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

Change happens for you
the moment you want something
more than you fear it.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.