Quotes About Reality

A "morning after" confrontation with the harsh daily reality can painfully destroy an erroneous understanding of an experience. Today may be beautiful, but tomorrow is another day and may have a different tint. ( "Morning after" )

At some point people do question the kind of life they are leading and wonder whether it is actually the life they want to live. Do they merely experience a series of 'phony' moments and a succession of fake sequences, or are they actually building up a authentic life story that gives them the enrichment they have been looking forward to. ( "Quest for the real moment" )

Life is damned to be a misunderstanding, if we just see it as we think it is, and not as it actually is. Life will be a sequence of misapprehensions, if we experience it with our own quirky wording, our own constricted view and not with the language of others. ( " Life was a misunderstanding » )

Perhaps life is an art, an enchantment, a fairy tale, an adventurous story trimmed with alluring episodes, an act with players who seem to be what they are actually not. We cannot, however, expect people to accept the make belief which some actors try to fool into believing. ( " He did not know that she knew " )

Truth is a permanent discontinuation of values which must be adjusted recurrently. ( "Hinter der Mattscheibe" )

I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.

All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.

It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.

All of us insist on our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing...It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.

We can't save everyone...not all the time.

Great; I get to be told I am dead all over again. -Stomfur

Hope is easy, but it catches no prey.

Sometimes a cloud is just a cloud.

What were you trying to do? Did you think you were a bird? Did you think you could fly?

It's not fair." "Life isn't fair. Stay

It's not fair." "Life isn't fair," Jaypaw

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I got a funny feeling They got plastic in the afterlife

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

Normally I didn't see a great deal. I didn't hear a great deal either. I didn't pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn't there. Strictly speaking I believe I've never been anywhere.

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.