Mark Twain Quotes About Reality

• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Reality, Imagination

• Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

• Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Dream

• The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Differences, Needs

• When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Reality, Thinking

• I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Crisis, Happens

• The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Anticipation, Poetry Is

  Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.143, Buccaneer Books

• No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Madness

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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