Quotes About Reality

She had sacrificed a potential relationship for the sake of a dream that could never be real.

He felt as if he'd somehow stepped out of time. Whatever was going on, he was slipping between its events and effects. He was beyond it, outside of it.

This was the true madness of the Strangeling. I realised there was no risk of attack, none at all. Danger here was a radically different concept to any that I was familiar with. It would be very easy to give oneself to the unreality of this place.

Oh, Enniel, face reality. Shemyaza is no ordinary being. What would burn you or I might simply be the beat of a lover's body to him.

There is no such thing as truth or untruth. There is simply being, and perception.

Perhaps the conspiracy existed only because I had invented it. Perhaps I should forget about it now.

You were only ever aware of yourself. I was just a mirror, like Amber was. You liked to see yourself in other people's eyes, become more real to yourself through their love for you.

He was a beautiful man, Tatrini thought, an enigmatic stranger. For a brief moment, she imagined how it might be if Almorante was allowed to be emperor. It was as if the future breathed on her neck. In another world, they would not be marching on Old Caradore now. In that world, Palindrake would be at Almorante's side. But we are not in that world, Tatrini told herself. We are in this one and I have made it to my liking.

My easy conviction that everything that had happened had only been the product of my imagination was shattered now.

He felt as if massing forces pressed against the membrane of reality, and it would take all his strength to keep them from breaking through.

Sometimes being alive feels like a dream.

Mikha'il and his kind, could only be statues, icons in this world. We could not admit they were actually real.

You didn't want time to pass. You hadn't faced your demons. You wanted to remain a child. Despite what people want to believe, time is not linear. There is no past point, future point, or now point. It's just a cycle of flux and mutability.

By day, Casmeer worried that he was becoming too involved in his work. He realised the boundary between fantasy and reality was growing blurred. Occasionally, but with increasing regularity, he thought about giving up on his creation. And yet, it had given his empty life some meaning. How could he live without it now?

Walking towards the signal, where the sun hung high in the sky, the traveller was a solitary figure in an uncluttered scene. He felt as if this was the ending of something, not the beginning. He could walk away out of existence. Yet his boots made a solid, satisfactory sound against the road and his flesh felt real and comfortable about his bones. He was a good performer.

The outside world was eclipsed from my mindscape; rarely have I experienced such moments of total reality.

He has been away from the world for a long time, and a cage is no place to reacquaint yourself with reality.

For a person who walks in people's dreams, who has conversed with gods and ghosts, you are an insufferable sceptic, Rayojini.

They had scorned the title scientist and dubbed themselves reality speculators.

The simple act of visualization can enable you to change reality.

Here we are in darkness," Tayven said, "And for us, if we did not know better, this light would be all that existed. But we do know better. We know that outside the cave the world is bathed in light.

The man uses his imagination to follow an object of fascination. He is tantalised by the chase, but also tantalises the prey. He does not want to move from his lonely home, because the reality of life might not match up to his imagination.

There was something too realistic in this performance, a promise of horror. I didn't want to watch it any more; I was sure it was going to distress me. It was like some soulscape terror being brought into reality, with no escape of return to normal awareness

Jay felt she could sense the overlapping layers of reality all around, just beyond her perception. But how could she see them? She felt it might be similar to the way the eyes could focus on a computer generated image, and perceive a shape in the chaotic pattern. If she concentrated hard enough, she was sure an image would suddenly loom before her, clear and definite.