Quotes About Reality

Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who've been there know the truth. He saw windmills, just like everyone else - but he believed they were giants. The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Just as the airplane graveyard was Heaven disguised as Hell, harvest camp is Hell masquerading Heaven.

No, says Ariana. It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.

There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn't have been there.

Lik the tree falling in the forest, says Ira. Huh? You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound? Howie considers this. Is it a pine forest, or oak? What's the difference? Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

The fact that it was not human meant that it could never understand certain things, in spite of its immense empathy and intellect. It couldn't comprehend, for instance, that the terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear.

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

Everything has meaning, or nothing has meaning. Which world would you rather live in?

Reality is overrated—but they'll remember thinking they knew the secrets of the universe

everything can—and will—change in an instant. People, truths, whole realities. The trick is deciding if a certain change is good, or bad, or some other thing we don't yet have words for.

Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.

Because it is easier to believe that scythes aren't real, and that I am a liar, and that the moon is made of cheese, than it is to admit that everything you believe about the world is wrong.

Because believing in nothing is still believing in something—and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.