Quotes About Reality

Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

how the representation of a thing could seem more alluring than the thing itself.

But the past was over, was behind her, was composed of ghosts and memories and dreams, and he was real and alive and there. His eyes held hers, encouraged her, willed her, compelled her. She'd given him her loyalty. She'd trusted him with her life.

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

But if it turns out that she really can adjust them from without? Reshuffle the deck of his past, leave a few cards out, sub in several from a sunnier suit, where was the harm in that? Harm had to be the opposite, didn't it? Letting the earliest truth metastasize into something that might kill you? The gangrenous spread of one day throughout the life span of a body— wasn't that something worth stopping?

My dad's version of the book, the staid, declarative Guide to the Galaxy, is nearly identical, except that the graphics are a matte black, and the same information is listed as Fact #47. I guess that's what growing up means, at least according to to the publishing industry: phosphorescence fades to black and white, and facts cease to be fun.

This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

Everything in life comes with a pooper scooper factor

On questions relating to the human condition, no single metaphor has all the answers.

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Vau: "We were having a philosophical discussion, as Mandalorians often do, and I asserted that the only demonstrable reality was individual consciousness, but he insisted on the existence of a priori moral values that transcended free will. So I hit him." Zey: "You think you're so witty." Vau: "No, I think you should stay out of Mando clan business.

Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom as long as they weren't the ones being shot at.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.

But sometimes it's hard to see a person from our past with new eyes. Like they've become a statue to their previously perceived old wonderfulness, and that's all we see – not the real person they are.

I was like a child leaving a gift unwrapped, the anticipation more exciting than the reality.

Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.

Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.

The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.

History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions.

Most never received messages from solid-state entities, evil or otherwise (although talking to the furniture, overhead light bulbs, lava lamps, and computer screens is commonly reported, these "entities" do not usually answer back) and never experienced paranoid episodes lasting for more ...