Unrealistic Beliefs Quotes

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

When your dreams are close to coming true, it does not feel real at first.

If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

... imagination robs us in great measure of reality...

The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that and it's easy to do.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.