Fantasy Overpowering Reality Quotes

#1. I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

Sufjan Stevens

#2. The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

Mircea Eliade

#3. This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Michael Medved

#4. The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

Beau Willimon

#5. Ten shot her a glare. "Zip it, shorty."
"Shorty?" Reese gasped and set her hand over her heart. "I'll have you know I'm two inches taller than Eva."
"Wow, I'm so impressed. I think I just pissed myself from excitement.

Linda Kage

#6. Back then he was thinking with his dick.

Liane Moriarty

#7. I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Norman Lock

#8. Let happiness bloom
In the freshness of your mind,
In the gentle wind of your thoughts.
On the ground of kindness and compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#9. In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Norman MacCaig

#10. Promise a lot and give even more.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#11. Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Jean Racine

#12. I also figured out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decisions which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.
(The Night Johnny Ace Died)

James Lee Burke

#13. Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Hans F. Sennholz