J. K. Rowling Quotes

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

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

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

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

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

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

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

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.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

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

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.

I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.