Graham Greene Quotes

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

I think reality is over-rated

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.