Quotes About Reality

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true.

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It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. "Again I didn't win? But last year I didn't win also!

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

You become a writer because you are convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn't really believe it.

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.

A)ny working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories – I wasn't sure there was a difference.

although of course at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation, lunchtime was an illusion.

That's the nature of the beast," said Zach. "We are what we are.

But I've learned that just because something isn't real doesn't mean it's not important.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.

M-am holbat la el. Nu credeam în fantome sau zâne sau zei, iar în ultimele câteva zile eram ca un om care privea la un spectacol de magie – m? a?teptam ca un magician s? p??easc? din spatele unei cortine ?i s? îmi cear? s? aleg o carte, oricare. Nu eram preg?tit s? cred în fantome, îns? asta e chestia cu experin?a empiric? – e realitatea.