Hideaki Itsuno Quotes

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.