Quotes About Reality

You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter

A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH*** I do not carry a sickle or a scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

Por el momento, con la idea tenía suficiente. Era indestructible. Hacerla realidad... Bueno, eso ya era otro cantar.

Sería bonito decir que después de este pequeño avance, ni Liesel ni Max volvieron a tener pesadillas. Sería bonito, pero mentira.

The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

People stupid. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream.

they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad

relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless—allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.

it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.

The Stream, he said, was the ubiquitous power of God that flowed through every being, sentient and nonsentient. To become a Leaf was to ride the current without struggling, to sense the inclination of a benevolent reality and surrender to it, moment by moment.

we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is—the

We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

I hate having emotions about reality; I'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that's how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

The problem with making heroes out of humans is that when they eventually act like humans, everyone is disappointed.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.