Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

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

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.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

'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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

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

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

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Most people like to live in illusions.

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

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.