Quotes About Reality

Reflecting on the process of involvement and disenchantment which was marriage, she thought that one entered it unsuspecting and, unsuspecting, found one was trapped in it.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

Es algo sabido que la vida no está predeterminada y que todas las historias son una cadena de casualidades. Pero incluso los que son conscientes de esa realidad, cuando llega cierto momento de su existencia y miran atrás, llegan a la conclusión de que lo que vivieron como casualidades no fueron sino hechos inevitables.

YaÅŸad???m?z hayat?n bir baÅŸkas?n?n düÅŸü olduÄŸunu kan?tlaman?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyeceÄŸini biliyordum art?k.

AÅŸk evlilikten sonra gelir. Unutma: Evlenmeden önce alevlenen aÅŸk yang?n? evlilikle söner ve geriye boÅŸ ve kederli bir yang?n yeri kal?r. Evlendikten sonra duyulan aÅŸk da biter elbette, ama onun yerini mutluluk al?r. Buna raÄŸmen baz? aceleci budalalar evlenmeden önce â??k olup yana yana bütün aÅŸk? tüketirler. Niye? Çünkü hayatta en büyük amac? aÅŸk sanarlar.

La diferencia entre el hombre al que le gusta soñar continuamente que es Napoleón y al hombre que se cree Napoléon es la diferencia que hay entre el soñador dichoso y el esquizofrénico desdichado.

Tužna projekcija života za pjesnika je primamljivija od samog života.

I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.

RötuÅŸlanm?? fotoÄŸraflar ruhlar? öldürüyor.

Razlika izme?u ?oveka kome se dopada da neprestano sanja da je Napoleon i ?oveka koji za sebe misli da je Napoleon, jeste razlika izme?u sre?nog sanjara i nesre?nog šizofreni?ara.

Bir yandan bunu hissediyor,diÄŸer yandan içimden geçenlerin hepsinin boÅŸ birer hayal olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordum.

Daha veciz konuÅŸmay? seven bir dükkan?n sahibi, müÅŸterilerinin bir elbiseyi deÄŸil, asl?nda bir hayali sat?n ald?klar?n? aç?klam??. O elbiseyi giyen ötekiler gibi olabilme hayaliymiÅŸ as?l sat?n almak istedikleri.

Ahora sé que no cambiaría nada demostrar que la vida que vivimos no es sino el sueño de otro.

no cambiaría nada saber que la escritura, que cualquier texto, no trata de la vida sino del sueño, por el mero hecho de ser escritura.

He was a poet and, as he himself had written—in an early poem still largely unknown to Turkish readers—it snows only once in our dreams.

Mnogo je toga u životu, vjerojatno je tako, ali ti, eto, ?ekaš. Ovako to meni izgleda: stvari koje bih želio da se dogode potrebno je dugo ?ekati, a kad se i dogode, ne dogode se onako kako sam ih ja zamišljao i o?ekivao; kao da su se sve urotile protiv mene: dolaze polako, polako, a dok se sna?eš i pogledaš, ve? su i prošle.

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