Quotes About Reality

She had never had any experiences of the heart. Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality;

Các sá»± v?t không ph?i bao gi? cÅ©ng Ä'úng nhÆ° v? b? ngoài.

Steward, Daughtry. Mr. Daughtry, friend, sir, or whatever I may name you, this is no fairy-story of the open boat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand. This is real. I have a heart. That, sir"—here he waved his extended hand under Daughtry's nose—"is my hand. There is only one thing you may do, must do, right now. You must take that hand in your hand, and shake it, with your heart in your hand as mine is in my hand.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.

And, in a way, we're all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we're only conscious of a single moment.

Lord Daldace looked about as if seeing the villa for the first time. "What are dreams? Ordinary experience is a dream. The eyes, the ears, the nose: they present pictures on the brain, and these pictures are called 'reality'. At night, when we dream, other pictures, of source unknown, are impinged. Sometimes the dream-images are more real than 'reality'. Which is solid, which illusion? Why trouble to make the distinction?

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.

I don't know nothing for sure, except water runs downhill and I gotta pay my rent.

You cannot love the girl without being conscious of the fact that she has yellow hair, you cannot see the world without the intervention of the physical senses.

We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.

Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.

It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life....I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.

Gli eroi mi davano la nausea. Una volta, avevo voluto essere uno di loro. Avevo covato sogni gloriosi di diventare un eroe dello stesso stampo di cui credevo Joscelin fosse fatto. Avevo perso quelle illusioni molto tempo fa, ma non avevo capito fino ad ora che eroismo significa vivere nel terrore di non essere in grado di proteggere coloro che ami.

Believing a thing does not make it true.

You can't separate the means from the cause, Brigitta. In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. We are dealing in realities here.

And the ending was as she expected it to be . . . and they all lived happily ever after. She wondered about happily ever after. Did it exist only in fairy tales, in stories for children? Or was there hope, really?

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

It was that palpable sense of presence shoved up against the reality of absence, like hot against cold, that really threatened to buckle the whole mass.

The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.