Quotes About Reality

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Nothing, he knew, was ever free.

Het was krankzinnig hoe klein de wereld in wezen was.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is.

Said, who was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1935, was fond of T. S. Eliot's idea that reality could not be deprived of the other echoes that inhabit the garden.

We're just not convinced that's the right path. It's not a path, it's a fact.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.

The toughest role is real life.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a waste of time is - dead wrong. Books are the most important the most powerful the most beautiful thing humans have ever created.

It was physically impossible for the verger to be suffering from time-lag, unless it was somehow contagious.

Vivimos como soñamos, solos.

No, no me gusta el trabajo. perezoso y pensar en las bellas cosas que pueden hacerse. No me gusta el trabajo, a ningún hombre le gusta, pero me gusta lo que hay en el trabajo, la ocasión de encontrarse a sí mismo. La propia realidad, eso que sólo uno conoce y no los demás, que ningún otro hombre pue de conocer. Ellos sólo pueden ver el espectáculo, y nunca pueden decir lo que realmente significa.

It's not regret for staying. It is nostalgia for something that we believe is true in our illusion, something we will never have. And if we touched it, we would soon realize that it was not what we dreamed of.

Dar adev?rul nu st? într-un singur fapt. AÈ™a cum un om nu are doar cutare vârst?, atâtea kilograme, cutare în?lÈ›ime È™i culoare a ochilor È™i a p?rului. Un om este toate acestea, plus înc? ceva. Iar acest ceva e mai important decât toate acestea. Tot astfel, adev?rul e un num?r de fapte, plus înc? ceva. Întotdeauna. Faptele singure nu sunt niciodat? întreg adev?rul.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.