Quotes About Reality

None is absolutely true.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

Has everyone gone mad?" "Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

?wiat nie mo?e umrze?. Wielu ju? pokoleniom zdawa?o si?, ?e ?wiat umiera. Ale to tylko ich w?asny ?wiat umiera?.

Zaraz zrobimy kaw?. Wprawdzie nie mam kawy, fili?anek i pieni?dzy, ale od czego jest nadrealizm, metafizyka, poetyka snów.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

Blake encourages us to fully engage our imagination in questioning of reality.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.

However objective one's analytical approach may seem, [Some dude] argues, we must recognize the myth of objectivity as another rhetoric, another metadiscourse fashioning our sense of 'reality.' Although avant-gardism has long been believed to be a metafictional rhetoric displacing reality, we must not forget that it is a framework of reality that has been constructed rhetorically--whether its rhetoric is ontological or consumerist or creative-masochistic.

You're always with me. But that must also be some version of you that i made up inside my head

Rather than erupting in fury, he had experienced a moment of weakness, as though he were about to burst into tears. Without hating Yoshimine (whom he considered a reliable friend even now), he had felt his own arms and legs shrinking before a reality that he could do absolutely nothing about. This feeling, he understood in retrospect, arose from the fact that Yoshimine was a landlord while he himself was an insignificant pauper.

Choice is creation. To choose is to create. Through my choices I create my reality. At every moment in my life I have a choice. Moments add up to a lifetime; choices add up to a life. What kind of life do I want for myself? What choices will create this kind of life?

I sniffed stardom. But my nose betrayed me.

Apostates have hinted that I'm the ill-begotten daughter of Medusa and the Marquis de Sade. As against these slanders there are the hymns of my champions, equally inaccurate, that I'm a fusion of Annie Laurie, Bopeep, Florence Nightingale and whichever waif Lillian Gish played in The Orphans of the Storm. Somewhere in between these contrary verdicts lies the truth.