Quotes About Reality

Kierkegaard: «Ci sono due modi di farsi ingannare: uno è credere in qualcosa che non è vero; l'altro è non credere in qualcosa che è vero». Poi

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

E' un aspetto, questo, dello stano mestiere del cronista che non cessa di affascinarmi e, al tempo stesso, di inquietarmi: i fatti non registrati non esistono.

Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true—rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.

He is healthy, physically, his body is fine. But his mind, well, it seems he encountered realities greater than he could bear. Many people need the certainty of solid walls and clear windows, but then they meet mysteries they cannot solve." The priest knew this all too well. "Yes, there are many." "And when they envelop and overwhelm you, well, if you are not prepared…" He gestured toward Bemm.

I want to tell her that it's like flying with paper wings—that when you're a child, it seems possible—but when you grow up it just sounds doomed for failure.

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

we cannot escape the things we must face.

You can only know what you know. Belief is not the same as knowledge. Belief is an assumption of knowledge despite a lack of evidence.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present.

I would like to make a bold claim right here at the outset: the fact that we die is the most important fact about us. There is nothing that has more weight in our lives.

Because of our ability to imagine an enjoyment that the symbolic order prohibits, the imaginary offers us a separate register of experience, distinct from the symbolic order.

There's just this empty shell, pretending to be human." "That's not true." I wished she could see herself the way I saw her- not some cold, distant model, but the girl who'd IM'd me and kept me from being alone. You're the most sincere, passionate, real person I've ever met." "I don't think that person exists anymore" "She does," I said. "I'm talking to her

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another - childhood to maturity, "bad" to "good," beginning to end - but a wheel turning around a point that shifts between hope and despair. "At the still point of the turning world," the job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

Sometimes memory is like a dream. The worst nightmares are forgotten. Sometimes living is a nightmare. Just getting up, meeting your neighbors, and walking down the street.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Currency is… a shared delusion in the minds of all men, a necessary delusion if civilised society were not to fall… yet so many lives, so many cities and kingdoms and nations, ultimately depend on hoping that no man ever stops to wonder why he values discs of a shiny yellow metal so highly…"   -

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

The only imperfection in life then was that we didn't really have much money.