Quotes About Reality

The deduction reached by top modern philosophers on this question is that things exist for two reasons: they are either necessary or they were caused.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it ' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Life sucks, and then you die...

You must be blind if you can't see The gaping hole called reality.

If you have imaginary enemies, it is possible to have imaginary victories.

This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.

We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example. But of what?

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie.

his dick, for example, was just that. It wasn't odd or typical. It just was, by god. And isn't that nice?

God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

The law is where reality goes to die.

Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Než si totiž po?ídíte d?ti, život ob?as dokonce odpovídá vašim p?edstavám a zám?r?m. Po?ád m?žete mít iluzi, že ho máte pod kontrolou - a to je pocit, který skute?né rodi?e už dávno opustil.

The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporific to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.

But there is another reason for the reality of sin and evil on this side of God's love: it is only through sin that we see his grace and his love.

You believe that you live in the universe when in reality the universe lives in you

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows that the good guys lost —LEONARD COHEN, "Everybody Knows," 1988

I don't think we really had made the leap in our mind that we are no longer safe behind these two great oceans," Armitage said later.9

Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.