“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.”
“Hope often suffers a grueling death on the crags of reality”
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”