Hannah Arendt Quotes

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.