Quotes About Reality

it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

Orson Scott Card

Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die.

Bean just didn't get it. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Piensa que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirte en lo que se finge ser.

Mother, I don't dream of marrying a prince and riding off into the sunset. That's a good thing, my darling, because there are no princes - only men and animals who pretend to be men.

It was Ender whose previous victories taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when we are really something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Aunque no podía conocerse el futuro, probablemente sería mucho mejor que sus peores miedos y no tan bueno como sus mejores esperanzas. ¿No funcionaba así siempre el mundo?

but Ender knew that lies could not last long in America. So he believed.

but the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they tell us is true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

O Sehnor e descrente?' You're an unbeliever? 'So descredo no increivel.' I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

You can tell a lie now and then, but what happens to you when you try to live your whole life inside a lie?

True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not.

Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.

they were guilty of too much belief in a story they were told. Most people are able to hold most stories they're told in abeyance, to keep a little distance between the story and their inmost heart.

the fact that you have belonged to the human race more deeply and fully than most people could even imagine, find a way to believe that, and don't hide from life in the unfathomable, lightless depths of relativistic space.

Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

with than the person who actually lived.

All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real. What you see is God waking up, gradually waking up, and his wakefulness sweeps through the dream, undoes the universe, until finally he sits up, rubs his eyes, and says, My, what a dream, I wish I could remember what it was, and in that moment we'll all be gone.