Quotes About Reality

To observe and to live are very different modes of experience.

You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!

Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches. We all float face-down.

I don't hide from unpleasant possibilities," the Somber Knight replied. "I embrace them. Some call it pessimism. I see it as an advantage.

The sun shines. Sometimes it burns too hot, sometimes it bothers the eyes, but it is a reality of life, and so we live beneath its glare and seek shade and shelter as needed.

We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even manage to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die." "Cheerful thought.

same as always. Beauty will fade. Prosperity will end. Singing will turn to lamentations. Old age will follow youth, and sickness will replace health. As soon as you are born, death is waiting, inevitable as nightfall. The rising tide of evil will swallow hope and truth and light until only the void remains.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?

Power is an illusion of perception.

What do you know?" "Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes." "What do you want, then?" "What I can't have." Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

You see, the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.

When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all , he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

It was simply the way of human beings, subtly changing the past in their minds to match their current beliefs.

If there was one thing Kelsier was good at, it was lying to himself.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.