Real things Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again…

— Blaise Tshibwabwa

“The facts of things do not store well. They rot and fall apart. But the stories we tell last and even grow.”

— Ananda Braxton-Smith

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.”

— Sean Patrick

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from a life…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“Nothing remains constant, all things are in a state of advancement or decay.”

— Steven Redhead

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”

— Voltaire

“Only one thing is real wealth and that is self-knowledge, because it cannot be destroyed.”

— Osho

“Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.”

— Johann von Goethe

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky