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Quotes About Reality

It seems people don't want to be awake these days. Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced
~ Charles Stross
I'm a believer. And like I said, I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos—in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever—was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I'll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I'm keeping the last shell for myself.     A
~ Charles Stross
The only question," Eve mused aloud, "is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.
~ Charles Stross
Ye ken, it's the living and no' the dead who know the truth. The dead still beileve it was worth dying for.
~ Charles Todd
Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea.
~ Charles Todd
On the other hand, the most likely outcome, meaning the one that will happen most often, is that the company will not discover a cure for baldness and you will get only $250,000 back.
~ Charles Wheelan
All of this will be true no matter what the distribution of the underlying population looks like.
~ Charles Wheelan
You go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
~ Charles Wheelan
Sunt, dupa standartele omenirii, in toate mintile. E adevarat ca am ceva manii, dar nu frizeaza nebunia.
~ Charlie Huston
Compare this to any mess written by Charlie Kaufman.
~ Charlie Kaufman
There is truth and there are lies, and art always tells the truth, even when it's lying.
~ Charlie Kaufman
The only moment that we exist is the moment we inhabit.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Our work is to reflect the world, say what is true in the face of so much lying.
~ Charlie Kaufman
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
Everyone walks carrying a hoop of his own horizons, large or small (since scales differ) and more or less illuminated by his own understanding. What resemblance or relationship his world has to the real one, none can know. But the one sure-thing bet is this: The world I really believe in does not, it cannot, it never will coincide with reality.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
There's nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer. That's false suffering.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
It's the play of our minds, of conceptualization about anything that happens to us, that is the problem. There's nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
When we discover Zen practice, we may hold out a hope that it is going to solve our problems and make our life perfect. But Zen practice simply returns us to life as it is. Being our lives more and more is what Zen practice is about. Our lives are simply what they are, and Zen helps us to recognize that fact. The thought If I do this practice patiently enough, everything will be different is simply another belief system, another version of the promise that is never kept.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Saskia...my god,Saskia..i`ve dreamed of making love to you so often over the past two years,I´m afraid you will vanish the way you do in my dreams.I´m afraid i`m going to wake up and find you gone again -Domenico Alessandros
~ Charlotte Lamb
The best form of saying is being
~ Che Guevarra
I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money in it.
~ Chelsea Handler
your right I get it it all make sense now, your the perfect person so right so wrong lets all live in your imaginary life.
~ chevelle
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
~ Chinua Achebe