Harshness Of Reality Quotes

#1. People who suffered through tragedy and wanted to escape from the harshness of reality would create entire worlds more actual to them than the real one.

Stacey Marie Brown

#2. ...many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.

Howard Kahane

#3. To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

James Bertolino

#4. The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

Michael Ruse

#5. The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

Marty Natalegawa

#6. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Nicolas Chamfort

#7. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Mahmoud Darwish

#8. Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

George Soros

#9. Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.

David J. C. MacKay

#10. Dearest Cecilia, You'd be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat.

Ian McEwan

#11. Being near him was like being in a cloud, making my vision blur and taking away some of reality's harshness with its mist.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#12. 13 Things a Personal Organizer Won't Tell You

Anonymous

#13. And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

Pope Francis

#14. I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

David Blunkett

#15. Herein lies the crux of the matter. To stand face to face with insecurity is still not to understand it. To understand it, you must not face it but be it.

Alan W. Watts

#16. Witches can generally come to terms with what actually is, instead of insisting on what ought to be.

Terry Pratchett