Quotes About Reality

Life is both much simpler and more complicated than it appears to be.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.

Stop dreaming of immortality. Live it instead, right where it exists, in the continual present.

A good marriage is a slow transition from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

Spend not on hopes.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

When a nation can't admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?

New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.