Quotes About Reality

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Probablemente un extraño nos ve como somos, no como quiere creer que somos

Tiene usted mala cara - dictaminó. - Indigestión. - ¿De qué? - De realidad.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Truth is never perfect, never squares with all expectations. Truth always poses doubts and questions. Only lies are one hundred percent believable, because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

Me habló de sus dudas y de sus miedos, de cómo toda una vida le había enseñado que cuanto tenía por cierto era una simple ilusión y que había demasiadas lecciones que no valía la pena aprender.

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground

Hope is cruel and has no consequence

You don't look well, he pronounced. Indigestion, I replied. From what? Reality. Join the queue.

Pasamos la mayor parte de nuestra vida soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos

Às vezes, as coisas mais reais só acontecem na imaginação. A gente só lembra do que nunca aconteceu.

Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

the public will always choose a warmed-up lie over the cold truth.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Todo es un cuento... Lo que creemos, lo que conocemos, lo que recordamos e incluso lo que soñamos. Todo es un cuento, una narración, una secuencia de sucesos y personajes que comunican un contenido emocional. Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una hitoria que se nos cuenta. Sólo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.

Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened.

Una vez me dijo que sentìa haber sido una decepciòn para mì. Le pregunté que de donde habìa sacado aquella idea absurda. De sus ojos, padre, de sus ojos, dijo. Ni una sola vez se me ocuriò que tal vez yo habìa sido una decepciòn todavìa mayor para ella. A veces nos creemos que las personas son décimos de loterìa: que estàn ahì para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas.

We only remember what never really happend