Quotes About Reality

Praise" that uses only "upbeat" songs can be extremely destructive to worshipers because it denies the reality of doubts concerning God, the hiddenness of God, and the feelings of abandonment by God that cloud believers going through difficult times.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?, she said, I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.

She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart and soul could not be mended by the power of the will, she had discovered over seven years. And so she had accepted reality and moved on.

One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one's life.

There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.

If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against the pain of the reality.

It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said. Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism? I am not cynical, she said. But no, I could not go back.

It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.

One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.

An investigator needs facts and not legends or rumours.

No hay nada tan engañoso como un hecho evidente -respondió

E je une mê vecje massime chê che, quant che si à scartât l'impussibil, ce che al reste, ancje se improbabil, e scuen jessi la veretât.

Nichts ist trügerischer als eine offenkundige Tatsache.

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

out of their depths – which, by the way, is their normal state

Tan peligroso es quitarle su cachorro a un tigre como arrebatarle a una mujer una ilusión».

Subestimarse es algo tan alejado de la verdad como exagerar las propias facultades.

Qué estúpidos fuimos al suponer que la muerte era nuestro enemigo!

Die Welt ist voller offensichtlicher Dinge, die niemand jemals beobachtet.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Chairman: Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.