Quotes About Reality

Photographs had the advantage of uniting two contradictory features. Their credentials of objectivity were inbuilt. Yet they always had, necessarily, a point of view.

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. —John Banville

That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch

There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." —William Longgood, The Queen Must Die

What I mistook for love was simply a powerful form of wishful thinking

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

Love isn't always all perfume and magic. It has a physical side, one that has nothing to do with tender feelings, fluttering hearts, sentimental poetry.

informed by real events. The case of Brittany Smith, who in 2018 shot and killed her rapist and was subsequently indicted for murder

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. ?Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

To a magician there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn't live long enough to know how right he was.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.