Reality Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being…

— Seneca the Younger

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from…

— Maimonides

“The people we hate haunt us; they inhabit our minds in a negative way as we brood in a deviant form of meditation on…

— Karen Armstrong

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort…

— Joan Didion

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

— Phillips Brooks

“There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo album to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken…

— Tonya Hurley

We actually allow ourselves to choose to have different experiences and to liberate ourselves to see past the illusion, past the fear of that…

— Christine McCormick Day

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the…

— Philip K. Dick

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Suffering is an illusion.

— Gautama Buddha