Quotes About Reality

each opportunity for escape was undermined by his certainty that things were about to go back to normal, that this savage new reality could not hold.

One thing I've learned in my job is that life is cheap, and when things start getting expensive, it gets cheaper still.

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

The iron horse still rumbled through the tunnel when she woke. Lumbly's words returned to her: If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.

it trains the kid in question to determine when people in the corner of his eye are talking about him and when they are not, a useful skill in later life when sorting out bona-fide persecution from perceived persecution, the this-is-actually-happening from the mere paranoid manifestation

Lumbly'nin sözleri yeniden akl?na geldi: 'Bu ülkenin nas?l bir yer olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenmek istiyorsan?z demiryolunu kullan?n derim ben hep. H?zla giderken d??ar? bakarsan?z, Amerika'n?n gerçek yüzünü görürsünüz.' Åžaka yapm??t? adam, demek ki. Yolculuklar? s?ras?nda pencereden bak?nca yaln?zca karanl??? görmüÅŸtü Cora, hep de öyle olacakt?.

Is this the truth of our historic encounter?

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

The elevator world will look like Heaven but not the Heaven you have reckoned.

I didn't have illusions about being one of the November Nine. We live in an age in which sitcoms outnumber miracles, and perhaps that is what we deserve.

Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Brother Mingo made some good points, Lander said. We can't save everyone. But that doesn't mean we can't try. Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing's going to grow in this mean cold, but we can still have flowers.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

There is always room for at least two truths.

I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

The truth of the matter is that the light at the end of the tunnel generally belongs to the pharmaceutical companies.

Memory is three-quarters imagination and all the rest is lies.

He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting level. He had an affinity with pain. If he couldn't cure it, he took it on.

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

And I told myself that lie, all the way to my home.

I needed to accept that this was my reality, and nothing was ever going to change it.