Eric Ambler Quotes

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.