I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night. I learned it the way all of my Southern people learn it: by closing door after door until one's mind and heart and conscience are blocked off from each other and from reality. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Tags: reality freedom democracy conscience slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People don't change. They're only revealed. —Staci Hart in Hardcore More about this quote Tags: reality people identity change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. —Frida Kahlo More about this quote Tags: reality art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. —Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts More about this quote Tags: reality memory past secrecy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: love reality romance illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality — it is a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it. —Philip Slater More about this quote Tags: reality despair illusion fantasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau More about this quote Tags: reality imagination limits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war reality beauty religion facts death blood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. —Linda Blandford More about this quote Tags: justice reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent. —Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home More about this quote Tags: reality dreams fantasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. —Jane Wagner More about this quote Tags: reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact. —Karina Halle in On Every Street More about this quote Tags: love reality instinct Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: truth reality fiction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality. —Lori Wilde in Love of the Game More about this quote Tags: reality fear ignorance threat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: reality power US politics presidency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email