Quotes About Reality

Freedom is not found in escaping "this" or possessing "that" . . . Real freedom is the active understanding that the world of "this and that" is a window into a higher order of reality not limited by the opposites.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

The lesson of her days, Dianora thought, was simply this: that love was not enough. Whatever the songs of the troubadours might say. Whatever hope it might seem to offer, love was simply not enough to bridge the chasm in her world.

We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

We are what we are and the world is what it is

The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.

She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as.

What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice.

Akkor változik meg a rendszer, amikor mások kezdenek el hazudni, mint akiket megszoktunk.

Ha a jelenben van egy valódi igazság, akkor azt csak az ember hordozhatja. Mert nincsen más, csak ember van.

Tébolydában élünk; én csak egy vagyok a számtalan más ?rült közül; magántébolyom is MÁS az én szememben: úgy teszek, mintha kívül létezne a normalitás birodalma (holott belátom, tudom, élem: nincs, nem volt, nem lesz soha);

Orwellibb ez a világ, mint Orwell valaha is képzelte volna. Korántsem megrovólag mondom ezt. Orwelli volt ez a világ mindig, csak soha nem tudták a benne él?k, mindig valami mást, többet képzeltek magukról. De hát ma egészen nyilvánvalóan apokaliptikus id?ket élünk. Az apokalipszis nem misztika: maga a realitás. Feltárul, aminek fel kell tárulnia: a valóságos emberi m?ködés.

He looked closely into Vyvyan's round and smiling face and said solemnly, "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.