Quotes About Reality

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

I keep life filled and speeded up so that I can cheat myself into believing that I am happy and contented, but oh! When night comes and I go to bed and turn out the lights, I lie there in the dark, I realize the absolute futility of trying to kid myself.

Oh, Ashley, nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does, he said. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences? Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.

But really, he told himself. There are just some people who don't seem like they ever could have been young. It's like trying to imagine my grandparents as little kids. Or—like the guy who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. No way he was ever young.

Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.

My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But

He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false.

A chicken with its neck wrung is different from a chicken with its head cut off, but does it matter to the chicken?

He had seen, but he had seen only what he wanted to see. How much of what happened in his life was like that? How much of what he saw was distorted by his own mind? He hadn't understood Berem because he didn't want to understand Berem!

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But what of you? How was your journey to your homelands?

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we should just give up?" Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away. "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open," Raistlin answered.

hope is the denial of reality

Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.