Quotes About Reality

Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back down again.

The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.

Los niños creen que nada les puede hacer daño – le susurraron al oído sus temores-. Los adultos saben que si.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know. Let them call you Slayer, who cares?

The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,

Winter comes for all of us, Catelyn thought. For me, it came when Ned died. It will come for you too, child, and sooner than you like. She did not have the heart to say it.

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles. I can take you to a real lion, my little friend. The prince keeps a pride in his menagerie. Would you like to share a cage with them?

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Maybe he had fallen asleep out in the snows and dreamed himself a safe, warm place.

Yet, if he would not lie, what could he write but truth?

A nightmare this might be, yet it was no dream.

fools believe in foolish things.

You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,

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All the stories can't be lies.

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.