Coping with Reality Quotes

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

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

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.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

She couldn't make it untrue.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

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.