Quotes About Reality

Nobody knew, I thought. Nobody. But I nodded, and, after kissing her on the cheek, I wandered off, walking through the streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

Cuando uno es joven ve el mundo como debería ser y cuando es viejo lo ve como es en realidad

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being.

Maturare non è altro che il processo attraverso il quale si scopre che tutto ciò a cui credevi da giovane è falso mentre tutto quello a cui ti rifiutavi di credere in gioventù risulta vero.

She was invisible, so I imagined her as perfect. Next to her I was unworthy, vulgar, all too real.

Me alaga. -Mejor aún, le pago. Y muy bien, que es el único halago verdadero en este mundo meretriz.

Accursed be those whose dreams are made of paper and ink, for theirs will be the purgatory of vanity and disappointment.

Una basílica hecha de libros oculta en un palacio que no había existido nunca, un lugar al que sólo podría volver en sueños.

Dipende dal fatto che lei é ancora molto giovane e un po' sciocco. Quando si é giovani si vede il mondo come dovrebbe essere, e quando si é vecchi lo si vede com'è in realtà. Prima o poi guarirà.

or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

Creía haber ganado el mundo en una hora y que todavía no sabía que podía perderlo en un minuto»

Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu sre?ne?

Uno cree en lo que puede, no en lo que quiere.

Saberá o louco que está louco?Ou os loucos são os outros,que se empenham em convencê-lo da sua insanidade para salvaguardarem a sua existência de quimeras?

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

He always thought becoming a husband and father would be a living Hell, but he had no idea it was going to be so literal.

Death cancels everything but truth… ? William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age

Facts are what facts are. Either you can live with them or you can't.

When exposed to the light of day, the belief that objectivity protects us against irrationality and chaos does not seem to be true.

It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence—the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.

God is in the truth.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946)