Dave Sim Quotes

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

Reality is never a golden age.

I pay these niggas with a reality check.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.