Quotes About Reality

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

The twentieth-century linguistic revolution," says Boston University anthropologist Misia Landau, "is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence in the first place. Reality is not simply 'experienced' or 'reflected' in language, but instead is actually produced by language.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

Los recuerdos no cambian y cambiar es ley de todo lo existente.

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

God wouldn't exist just because she forced herself to believe, any more than Cade would be all right just because she wanted him to be.

I believe that first love is a thorny issue, filled with anticipation and hopes and expectations that are usually dashed by realities of life. It is most difficult to accept the end of the first love someone bears for another. And when that first love is not returned, it is the most difficult to forget

When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is supposed to be, where you left it. Sometimes The Baby moves it, or she takes it with her, and you have to settle for some other toy. You bring it into the living room and set it between your paws as you sleep. It helps you believe that one day you might be a real mother.

She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize." "Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision.

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

I would never leave your side for a moment if it were possible. But it is not. It is not in the nature of life that we can be together in all things.

We think we know them, but we really don't. We let ourselves be deceived because we are always expecting the best out of those who seem willing to provide it.

Think about it. Think how it works. We deceive ourselves far more easily than others deceive us. Our false perceptions betray us. Our fears and doubts worm their way into our subconscious and cause us to believe what isn't necessarily true but becomes true through our own fixation on the possibilities.

But we don't always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don't get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled. That's what we have here.

Sometimes things feel real when they aren't. It might all just be nonsense you've persuaded yourself is something more.

It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for

It is not true that things are never as bad as they seem or that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence or that there is a silver lining inside every cloud. These are things we wish were true, but which are more often than not false hopes.

This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.

But nothing was permanent; all things must change. And no matter the beliefs of some and the wishes of others, life had a way of surprising you.

There is no objective scale by which to measure truth when that truth is not written down.