Quotes About Reality

I realized that life means waiting, enduring the passage of time. Nothing ever quite meets our expectations, yet as long as we are alive, time flows on, and everything eventually comes to pass.

becoming a grown-up did not mean good things were waiting for you.

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

even though he is mad and I am sane.

Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before.

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

I did very much hope that he wasn't frittering away his time on nonsense when he had a fantasy to dream about.

Atât timp cât un num?r suficient de oameni cred c? e autentic, chiar e.

But, however splendid a job may seem when one does not have it, it rarely stands up to close acquaintanceship.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

Mundus Vult Decipi

It reads better than it lives .

Life is full of death, my friend.

When 99% of the world's scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is adversely affecting the planet, and 10,883 out of 10,885 peer-reviewed papers confirm it, and yet a United States Senator steps on to the floor and attempts to rebut the facts by holding up a snowball, we have officially entered The Shithead Zone. But

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

But here's life's most limiting truth – it's always now, always here, never then and there. And

Worth remembering the world was never how she anxiously dreamed it.

But here's life's most limiting truth - it's always now, always here, never then and there.