Reality Quotes

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”

“Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,I care not for thee, Kate: this is no worldTo play with mammets and to tilt with lips:We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.”

“Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.”

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

“So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.”

“When remedies are past, the griefs are endedBy seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.”

“Too nice, and yet too true!”

“And nothing is, but what is not.”

“Poor wretches that dependOn greatness' favor, dream as I have done;Wake, and find nothing.”

“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,Even in the moment that we call them ours.”

“Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?”

“O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

“To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.”

“Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”

“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”

“But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.”

“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?”

“Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.”

“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”

“A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.”

“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”

“O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.”