Quotes About Reality

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

La mélancolie est une maladie qui consiste à voir les choses comme elles sont.

It is here that what I call the outpouring of dream into real life began. From that moment, everything took on a double aspect at times, and this occurred without my reason lacking logic and without my memory loosing the slightest details of what happened to me. But my actions, seemingly unconscious, were dominated by what human reason calls illusion.

Gérard de Nerval

c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour. L'une était l'idéal sublime, l'autre la douce réalité. Que me font maintenant tes ombrages et tes lacs, et même ton désert ?

épanchement du songe dans la vie réelle",

EL SUEÑO es una segunda vida.

vad är det som blir synligt? I gränsskikten mellan det osynligas former uppstår bilden Eller det verkliga

Hayallerimizin yeryüzüne ancak bize nanik yap?p a?z?m?za bir parmak bal, a?ulu bal gibi bir ?ey çalacak kadar bir zaman dilimi için indi?ini kesin olarak anlam??t?m.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.

Faptul c? sunt dus în pr?pastie cu gânduri bune nu schimb? câtu?i de pu?in realitatea c?derii mele în gol.

Medicii numesc aceast? stare depresie. Eu o în?e­leg mai bine ca dezagregare a sistemului de iluzii în virtutea c?ruia înaint?m, f?ptuim, ne agit?m, d?m contur clipei urm?toare ?i zilei de mâine.

If it's all been dream and delirium may death ripen me in my dream.

Already we mistrust wakefulness; if we are dreaming, then let us dream, until our dream convinces us.

Per me fotografare significa prelevare campioni del mondo reale e metabolizzarli, come sostanza necessaria e nutriente per la memoria, e sono convinto di avere un rapporto bulimico con la realtà. Scatto davvero molte fotografie anche se, facendo per lo più uso del cavalletto e di una macchina di grande formato, riesco a controllarmi e a non farmi prendere troppo la mano dalla rapidità quasi compulsiva sempre in agguato e a mantenere un ritmo lento e misurato.