I now inform you that you are too far from reality.

Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.

Every bit of falseness you let into your life takes you away from reality.

You're out of touch with reality in that regard.

Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Sometimes denying reality is all that keeps a person going, isn’t it?

You must get away from the real thing because the real thing will limit your acting and cripple you. To think of your own mother's death each time you want to cry onstage is schizophrenic and sick.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality