Quotes About Reality

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love.

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

What happens,' writes Shirer, 'to the inner fabric of a people when they are fed lies like this daily?' It is a question as important today as it was when posed on 9 May 1940

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Can't save everyone

Because it wasn't just the death of a sweet little beast we were marking—it was the death of what we thought we'd been doing, where we'd thought we were living, the death of being able to believe anymore in our innocence and the existence of goodness around us.

To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.

Freedom was an illusion even when one's instincts were good.

The battle is always between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, is it not? Imagination is not what it's cracked up to be. Sam decided to forget the petty, bourgeois rite of eating food out of another's orifices for a while. He decided to just love Elizabeth instead.

Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

Combien d'amours ont fait crier ton lit ? Combien d'années ont ridé tes yeux ? Qui a vidé tes seins épuisés ? Je t'ai regardé avec mes yeux de plomb Et mes illusions ont éclaté Laissant derrière elles Ta vieillesse Qui ne peut répondre à mes questions.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

Even as a kid, I always had the ability to see down the line to where trouble lay, or truth. George used to complain that I expected the worst out of life, but it wasn't that. I simply recognized that just because the sun was shining one day didn't mean it would the next. Frost would come, and so would snow. The fact of rain did not rule out the possibility of drought. You could call it pessimism. I based my attitudes on what I saw in the world around me. Not what I dreamed up.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Vivir aquí es como si el tiempo no pasara, como si pasara sin poder tocarme, como si me tocara sin cambiarme

Se dice que hay varias maneras de mentir; pero la más repugnante de todas es decir la verdad, toda la verdad, ocultando el alma de los hechos. Porque los hechos son siempre vacíos, son recipientes que tomarán la forma del sentimiento que los llene

Porque no se había animado a aceptar que la vida es otra cosa, que la vida es aquello que no puede hacerse en compañía de mujeres fieles ni hombres sensatos, porque había cerrado los ojos y se había entregado, como los demás

Qué fuerza de realiadad tienen los pensamientos de la gente que piensa poco y, sobre todo, que no divaga. A veces dicen "buenos días", pero de qué manera tan inteligente.

Lo malo no está en que la vida promete cosas que nunca nos dará; lo malo es que siempre las da y deja de darlas.

No mentiría; pero la mejor verdad está en lo que cuento...

Ignoraba que estaba vacilando entre su verdadero nacimiento y la permanencia en la nada.

Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...

también, al mismo tiempo, sé que lo pasado no es inmóvil ni está fijo, a pesar de la ilusión de los documentos: tantas fotografías y cartas y filmaciones que permiten pensar en la inmutabilidad de lo ya visto, lo ya escuchado, lo ya leído. No: nada de eso es definitivo.