Quotes About Reality

What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth; life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Men who are not free always idealize their bondage.

Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.

Intotdeauna omul neliber îÅŸi idealizeaz? nelibertatea.

The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.

Um homem a ferros tende sempre a idealizar a sua escravatura.

Maga, Anna Ivanovna, azon tépelÅ'dik, vajon feltámad-e, pedig hiszen már akkor is feltámadt, amikor megszületett, és észre sem vette.

Dónde estaban los recuerdos puros? En casi todos se funden impresiones de otras épocas que se les superponen y les confieren una realidad distinta. Los recuerdos no existen: es otra vida revivida con otra personalidad, y que en parte es consecuencia de esos mismos recuerdos. No se puede invertir el sentido del tiempo, a menos que se viva con los ojos cerrados y los oídos sordos.

Tienes esperanzas? —preguntó Lazuli. —Como no las tenía desde hacía muchísimo tiempo —dijo Wolf—. Pero no me inspira mucha confianza. Ocurrirá como las otras veces. —¿Qué pasó las otras veces? —dijo Lazuli. —Nada —respondió Wolf—. Una vez terminado, no quedaba nada. Sólo decepción. En fin....no se puede permanecer siempre a ras de suelo.

L'histoire est entièrement vraie puisque je l'ai imaginée d'un bout à l'autre.

Un hombre con un chándal blanco abrió la cabina y se guardó la propina que, aunque se supone que se dan para beber, le serviría para comer, porque tenía cara de mentiroso

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

Life is a monster, Calvin. Especially when it doesn't turn out the way you hoped. But that doesn't mean you can hide from it.

The myths we create about ourselves are solely there so our brains can survive.

In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.

It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know they will be.

For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man.