Quotes About Reality

if things look good today, they will most assuredly turn to shit tomorrow.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

the whatness of Allbook.

Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen

You're a romantic," said Crabbe. "You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.

And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever.

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen." ? Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Trying to get some sleep so I'd be rested for school the next day while people were having sex on the couch and shooting cocaine and cranking the stereo was definitely not a mundane reality.

Marriage appeared something remote and forbidding, with which desire for Barbara had little or no connexion. She seemed to exist merely to disturb my rest: to be possessed neither by lawful nor unlawful means: made of dreams, yet to be captured only by reality.

However much one hears about individuals, the picture formed in the mind rarely approximates to the reality. So it was with Mrs Maclintick. I was not prepared for her in the flesh. When she opened the door to us, her formidable discontent with life swept across the threshold in scorching, blasting waves.

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.

One always imagines things happen in hot blood,' he said. 'An ill-considered remark starts a row. Hard words follow, misunderstandings. Matters that can be put right in the end. Unfortunately life doesn't work out like that. First of all there is no row, secondly, nothing can be put right.

People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding. The biographer, even at his highest and best, can be only tentative, empirical.

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. At that moment it was the real one I loved.