Quotes About Reality

Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.

What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable?but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.

There's only things, Blackie.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

What have we all got to ecpect that we allow ourselves to be so line with disappointment.

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.

St Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.

I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it is really worse.

We might feel very sure that there is no more to reality that the material world in which we live, but we cannot prove that this is the case. Theoretically there could be other realms, other dimensions, as all religious traditions and quantum physics alike maintain. Theoretically, the brain could be as much a receiver as a generator of consciousness and thus might be fine-tuned in altered states to pick up wavelengths that are normally not accessible to us.

at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another of non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways

at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another in non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways.

So how do they deal with it? They ignore it. They hope it'll go away Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and it won't go away.

What he doesn't consider, in other words, is the possibility that consciousness comes first while physical realms and beings are manifestations or projections of that primordial consciousness—as above, so below, as many ancient wisdom traditions state.

You can be an aging rock star, but you can't be an aging wannabe rock star.