Frederick Buechner Quotes

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.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

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

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

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

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.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I pay these niggas with a reality check.

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

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

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

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

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

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

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