Quotes About Reality

In the best stories that sense comes through: it is what it is.

And mentally, I don't believe, really, that I am one bit more out of my head than any other creature here on earth.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Past and future to him were the realities; the present dull, meaningless, only significant if, as now, going back along the sands, he could say to himself: 'Later on, I shall remember.

It is dangerous to think people human, who once have been divine.

In the mirror,' she thought, 'he sees something unreal - he sees the opinion of the world, is driven by fear of the world and judges me by the world's standards. But the world isn't real. It has no existence. Mr. Taylor is real - or was until this morning - and I am real, but what is Roddy? He is just a man looking into a mirror watching his own face growing angrier.

El tiempo pasaba. Era un hecho nada difícil de probar llegado el caso, aunque sucedían muy pocas cosas.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then what little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then when little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Rudge was not a pessimist, but he'd lived long enough to know that hope had to be kept on a short leash.

This is not an act

It is impossible for finite minds to comprehend the work of redemption. Its mystery exceeds human knowledge; yet he who passes from death to life realizes that it is a divine reality. The beginning of redemption we may know here through a personal experience. Its results reach through the eternal ages.

Joel That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed No thanks.

We tend to overemphasize how a negative outcome will affect us. In reality, people are much more resilient than they realize, and "bad outcomes" often are not nearly as bad as people thought they would be. In short, we can take more risks knowing that our "mistakes" (if that's even what they turn out to be) won't be as negative as we imagine they will be.

I was a lowly puddle of plasma, trading "I am alive" for a vague "I tend to exist" and weeping for joy over the sheer revelation.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I woke—and found that life was duty.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

But now, without leaving home, from the comfort of your easy chair, you can divorce yourself from the consensus on what constitutes "truth." Each person can live in a private thought bubble, reading only those websites that reinforce his or her desired beliefs, joining only those online groups that give sustenance when the believer's courage flags.

There is a purpose of life in the nerd world, which is treating reality as code, and optimizing it. Life becomes a problem-solving activity, and the problem is some sort of lack of optimization.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.