Quotes About Reality

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.

Bing Crosby and those fellows promised to love deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars for eternity. But who can sustain that kind of emotion for a month, or a year--much less forever? The song ends, the feeling fades, and they're onto the next pretty girl.

The popular misconception is that narcissists love themselves. In reality, they direct their love at other people's impressions of them. He who loves only impressions is incapable of loving people, himself included.

Children's literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and turns. The child armed with the torch of knowledge, awareness and guidance must cross this bridge and set foot to the intense harshness of the bigger world." An In-Depth Analysis of Educational Deadlock

Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

History holds up one side of our lives and fiction the other.

For people my age, including me, if we don't post it, it never happened. People's

Humans are so good at imagining things, they invent gods who feel so real, they then betray us by not existing.

things get made from belief and memory.

Heaven is a dream of Disneyland for those unable to act here on Earth.

I respect your intelligence too much to construct a narrative that might convince you of a reality far from the truth." Mr.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Most days I go home crying and my dad tells me welcome to the real world.

These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.