Quotes of: Harsh-reality Keyword

Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.

Exit Eleonora

There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

Eyeless in Gaza

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

4.38 TONE OF SPEECH Most of the problems of life that be, Are caused by the tone of speech only, It is never what is said in reality, But how it’s said that causes harm truly. [221] – 4

Eddies of Life

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

Engleby

People often reject and criticize what they believe Jesus would have no part in, but in reality most times Jesus is a part of the scandalous, the dirty and the dangerous.

An Emerging Spirituality

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

Ethics

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

Let us be reckless in our capture of the imagination. For when we do, our dreams become the foundation upon which our reality is built.

The Fall of Babel

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

A Fine Balance

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

The Frowny Face Cow

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

The Forgotten Soldier

In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.

Falling Is Like This

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Gil's All Fright Diner

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

…this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

Giovanni's Room