Mark Twain Quotes

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

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.

Things are always different from what they might be.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

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

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.