Quotes About Reality

He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.

Lydia said sharply: "No. Evil is not only in ones mind — evil exists. You seem to have no consciousness of the evilness in the world. I have. I can feel it.

La verità è che la maggior parte della gente, non esclusi i poliziotti, si fida troppo di questo mondo perverso. Crede troppo a quanto viene loro raccontato. Io no. Mi dispiace, ma io voglio sempre rendermi conto personalmente delle cose.

Oh yes," said Miss Marple fervently. "I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Truth," she said, "is seldom romantic.

I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

Una ha de tener el valor necesario para enfrentarse a la realidad. Sin ese valor, la vida carece de significado. La gente que más daño nos hace es aquella que nos escuda contra la realidad.

But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.

Calgary sighed. Things were never, he thought, the way you imagined them to be. Every day he found himself less attracted to the man whose name he had taken such trouble to vindicate. He was almost coming to understand and share the point of view which had so astounded him at Sunny Point.

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don't you? She's very real. But if the sun were to shine you wouldn't be able to see her at all. It was rather like that. I was the moon…When the sun came out, Simon couldn't see me any more…He was dazzled. He couldn't see anything but the sun–Linnet.

Ele disse: 'A vida não pode realmente ser resolvida por máximas admiráveis tiradas da literatura moderna. Lembre-se de que a natureza tem os dentes e as garras rubros.

The truth is," said Evelyn, "that one doesn't really know anything about anybody." She added, "Not even the people who are nearest to you…." "Isn't that going a little too far, Evelyn—exaggerating too much?" "I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself." "I know you," said Edward Hillingdon quietly. "You think you do.

He had to deal with the physical world and not the psychic. It was his job to track down the murderer. And to do that he required no guidance from the spirit world.

Hasta el propio Romeo, como sabes, tuvo su Rosalinda antes de que le sorbiera el seso Julieta.

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.

You seem to be a sensible young woman and I don't suppose you've thought much about world politics which is just as well, because as Hamlet very wisely remarked, 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Wives madly devoted to unsatisfactory and often what appeared quite unprepossessing husbands, wives contemptuous of, and bored by, apparently attractive and impeccable husbands.

But you see, Miss Helier, this isn't a serial story. This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Kad bi svinje poletele, sasvim je neverovatno da bi zbog toga postale ptice.

You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.