Bob Thaves Quotes

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

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

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.