Quotes About Reality

The initial promise of computer technology was to remove the intermediary from the financial market, or at least reduce the amount he could scalp from that market. The reality turned out to be a windfall for financial intermediaries—of somewhere between $10 billion and $22 billion a year, depending on whose estimates you wanted to believe.

There are two ways to be a health officer," he said. "One is to pretend it's not happening.

I believe in God, but I'll never be nominated for saint

A lot of what people did and said when they predicted things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, It's impossible to know for sure.

Welcome to adulthood. Please leave your dreams at the door.

You can't have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.

though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.

One of life's dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem … ordinary.

Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If

What?' 'Wherever there are good people,' he said, 'there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn't want to follow where you're leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances.

we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much longer than it had.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.

Everything may exist for a while - even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal's tragedy that he can never accept this.

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.

When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

Who told you that the world was just?' Elric

And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

The nearest we ever come to knowing truth is when we are witness to a paradox.

You must remember," she said, putting a bony hand on mine, "that true stories do not always end as we would wish them to. Would you like to hear the truth of what happened, or shall I make something up for you just to keep you happy?

Life is tough, then you die. The sooner you accept that and move on with your life, the better off you'll be.