Tobias Lindholm Quotes

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

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

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

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

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

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

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

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

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.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

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

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting 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.

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

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

I happen to live in reality. The name of my city is Literalville. And it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Reality is never a golden age.