Reality

"I do dream every night but in the morning I regret."

"Dream takes you to skies and reality just to the bed."

"And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!"

"Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!"

"I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will. I find it stranger that those same women, are ignorant to the belief that this isn't his real face. Most women don't know what their man looks like when he's not in-love with them. But when that mystical spell is broken, it's like a person seeing the true face of God; only realizing that you simply never understood...their real self."

"I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It’s different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams."

"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."

"Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real."

"I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real."

"It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy."

"I refuse to settle for what you call reality."

"My life exists in an imagined reality."

"I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the scenic, the expression of what are sometimes called abstract imaginings. The ‘simply natural’ is interesting no longer."

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

"There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head."

"Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –"

"Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart."

"Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat"

"Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality."

"You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be. But it's not very easy to become Jewish.''I know,' I said forlornly, 'I need a number.'And she suddenly stopped smiling."