Lenny Bruce Quotes

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

To take the world as one finds it

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

There seemed nothing to do but live.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

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