Quotes About Reality

I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD. Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?

There's no point in believing in things that exist.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, It shouldn't be like this. Her mentor replies, There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Granny Weatherwax looked out at the multi-layered, silvery world. "Where am I?" INSIDE THE MIRROR. "Am I dead?" THE ANSWER TO THAT, said Death, IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NO AND YES. Esme turned, and a billion figures turned with her. "When can I get out?" WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT'S REAL. "Is this a trick question?" NO. Granny looked down at herself. "This one," she said.

But is all this true? said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. You mean you don't KNOW it's true? said Brutha. I THINK it might be, said Didactylos. I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.

In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.