Quotes About Reality

People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together; this was the terrible trick nature had played on her.

I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Što ako do?em do kraja života i shvatim kako sam iz dana u dan o?ekivala ?ovjeka koji nikad nije došao? Postat ?u poput plesa?ice koja se od djetinstva priprema za predstavu u kojoj nikad ne?e nastupati.

Pitala sam se jesu li muškarci doista toliko zaslijepljeni ljepotom da bi se osje?ali povlaštenima proživjeti život s nekim stvarnim demonom ako bi to bio lijepi demon.

Sometimes we go through the worst time by imaging how the world would be if our dreams come true.

Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.

What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been

was living only half in Gion; the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

I don't misjudge people. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

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

The trouble in our society is that everyone wants drugs that are free from risk and, as you and I both know, they don't exist and never will.

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.

Waarom zou een wonder geen wonder zijn alleen omdat een ander het niet ziet?

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

Zo komt elke angst in de wereld, zomaar, omdat iemand op een dag besluit te geloven dat er een gevaar bestaat.

We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit.

The comic effect of the satire is derived from the simultaneous presence, in the reader's mind, of the social reality with which he is familiar, and of its reflections in the distorting mirror of the satirist. It focuses attention on abuses and deformities in society of which, blunted by habit, we were no longer aware; it makes us suddenly discover the absurdity of the familiar and the familiarity of the absurd.

paradise cannot be constructed out of concrete.

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

Illusion, then, is the simultaneous presence and interaction in the mind of two universes, one real, one imaginary. It transports the spectator from the trivial present to a plane remote from self-interest and makes him forget his own preoccupations and anxieties; in other words, it facilitates the unfolding of his participatory emotions, and inhibits or neutralizes his self-asserting tendencies.

Theoretical physics is no longer concerned with things, but with the mathematical relations between abstractions which are the residue of the vanished things.

Trace the contours of your face with a soapy finger on the bathroom mirror (it is easily done by closing one eye). There is a shock waiting: the image which looked life-size has shrunk to half-size, like a headhunter's trophy. A person walking away does not seem to become a dwarf -- as he should; a black glove looks just as black in the sunlight as in shadow -- though it should not;

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?