Quotes About Reality

As if any of us could bear to live in a world of unadulterated truth!

But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.

Things are as they are.

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

We can never make sense of death,' I said. 'It doesn't obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist.

Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde.

Nos quejamos de lo mal que están las cosas, pero yo a veces me pregunto si no están ya mucho peor de lo que nos imaginamos

The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.

La vida se compone de demasiados Quizás. Y de muy pocas cosas que se puedan saber con absoluta seguridad...

After all his years as a politician he realised all that was left was the lie. The truth disguised as a lie or the lie dressed up as the truth.

Mitä voikaan tapahtua maailmassa, jossa kaiken väitetään olevan mahdollista?

Freedom, security, these were what they wanted. A life where fear, hunger, and hopelessness were not the only reality.

But dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Después de tantos años como político había comprendido que lo único que quedaba era la mentira. La verdad disfrazada de mentira o la mentira encubierta de verdad.

It's about contradictions between us and inside us, between individuals and society, between dream and reality. Sometimes these contradictions express themselves in violence, such as racial conflict. And this mirror of crime can take us back to the Greek authors.

Ihminen voi olla kuollut, vaikka elää, ja olla elossa, vaikka onkin kuollut.

You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to.

La vieillesse est le côté sombre de la vie et rien d'autre. Elle n'est qu'une illusion, un miroir aux alouettes.

There's no such thing as a murderer's face," he said. "You imagine something: a profile, a hairline, a set of the jaw. But it never matches up.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

The world that our senses and our consciousness habitually acquaint us with is now nothing more than the shadow of itself; and it is cold like death.

We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.

We often say, "I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not really joyful or peaceful. But I don't know how things can be different, and I guess I have to be realistic and accept my life as it is." It is this mood of resignation that prevents us from actively naming our reality, articulating our experience, and moving more deeply into the life of the Spirit.