Quotes About Reality

A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.

I might put it another way: Franz felt his book life to be unreal. He yearned for real life, for the touch of people walking side by side with him, for their shouts. It never occurred to him that what he considered unreal (the work he did in the solitude of the office or library) was in fact his real life, whereas the parades he imagined to be reality were nothing but theater, dance, carnival- in other words, a dream.

If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets. And sets are made to be destroyed.

Un valor vulnerado y una ilusión desenmascarada suelen tener el cuerpo igual de mortificado, se parecen, y no hay nada más fácil que confundirlos.

Quanto mais pesado o fardo, mais próxima da terra está a nossa vida, e mais ela é real e verdadeira. Por outro lado, a ausência total de fardo faz com que o ser humano se torne mais leve do que o ar, com que ele voe, se distancie da terra, do ser terrestre, faz com que ele se torne semi-real, que seus movimentos sejam tão livres quanto insignificantes. Então, o que escolher? O peso ou a leveza?

Se buscan así mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse

There is no perfection, only life

DüÅŸüncenin yakla??kl??? ile gerçeÄŸin kesinliÄŸi aras?nda düÅŸlenemez olan?n yaratt??? küçük bir boÅŸluk vard? ve onun bir türlü peÅŸini b?rakmayan da bu boÅŸluktu.

Komünistler kapitalizmin evriminin proletaryay? gitgide yoksullaÅŸt?raca??na inanm??lard?, günün birinde Avrupa'n?n bütün iÅŸçilerinin iÅŸlerine arabayla gittiÄŸini keÅŸfedince, gerçeÄŸin hile yapt???n? hayk?rmak arzusuna kap?lm??lard?r. Gerçek, ideolojiden daha güçlüydü.

Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.

Ä°ki ayr? yüz fotoÄŸraf?n? yan yana koyduÄŸunda, onlar? birbirinden ay?ran ne çok ÅŸey olduÄŸunu görüp ÅŸa??r?rs?n. Ama iki yüz yirmi üçü birden kar??na serilince, bir anda gördüÄŸünün sadece tek bir yüzün çok say?da çeÅŸitlemesi olduÄŸunu ve birey diye bir ÅŸeyin hiçbir zaman var olmad???n? anl?yorsun.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state. Milan Kundera, The Paris Review, summer 1984 no. 92

he was happier with Sabina the invisible goddess than the Sabina who had accompanied him throughout the world and whose love he constantly feared losing.

It would be so simple to find peace in the world of fantasy. But I've always tried to live in the two worlds at the same time without giving up one for the other. I must not give up the real world even though I am losing everything in it. Perhaps it will be enough in the end if I manage one thing. One last thing: To hand over my life as a clear message to the one person able to understand it and carry it on.

Porque o homem pensa e a verdade escapa-lhe. Porque quanto mais os homens pensam, mais o pensamento de um se afasta do outro. E, finalmente, porque o homem nunca é aquilo que pensa ser.

la ilusión que nos hace considerar la situación de nuestra vida como un simple decorado, una circunstancia contingente e intercambiable por la que transita nuestro 'yo', independiente y constante.

Il fardello più pesante è quindi allo stesso tempo l'immagine del più intenso compimento vitale. Quanto più il fardello è pesante, tanto più la nostra vita è vicina alla terra, tanto più è reale e autentica

La carga más pesada nos destroza, somos derribados por ella, nos aplasta contra la tierra. Pero en la poesía amatoria de todas las épocas la mujer desea cargar con el peso del cuerpo del hombre. La carga más pesada es por lo tanto, a la vez, la imagen de la más intensa plenitud de la vida. Cuanto más pesada sea la carga, más a ras de tierra estará nuestra vida, más real y verdadera será.

Mimpi-mimpi kita membuktikan bahwa untuk berimajinasi-bermimpi mengenai hal-hal yang tidak terjadi-adalah kebutuhan manusia yang paling dalam.

Cum putea s? È™tie? Cum putea s? verifice? În orele de fizic?, orice elev poate s? fac? experienÈ›e spre a verifica exactitatea unei ipoteze È™tiinÈ›ifice. Omul îns?, pentru faptul c? dispune doar de o singur? via??, nu are nicio posibilitate s? verifice ipoteza prin experien??, drept care nu va afla niciodat? dac? a greÈ™it sau dac? a f?cut bine dând ascultare sentimentelor sale.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

He had come to find out once and for all that neither parades nor Sabina but rather the girl with the glasses was his real life, his only real life! He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

Y así es como funciona el mundo que nos rodea. Si insistiese en decirle la verdad a la cara, eso significaría que me lo tomo en serio. Y tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad. Yo, hermano, tengo que mentir si no quiero tomarme en serio a los locos y convertirme yo mismo en uno de los locos.