Quotes About Reality

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

Das wirkliche Leben war Chaos, aber es lag eine schreckliche Logik in der Phantasie.

The truth is rarely pure

All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars

What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

I prate of ancient poets' monstrous lies, Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Crédule enfant, à quoi bon ces vains efforts pour saisir une fugitive apparence? L'objet de ton désir n'existe pas! ... Cette ombre que tu vois, c'est le reflet de ton image.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.

What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way? A great idea can be undermined by another great idea and, in due course, be demolished by it. But futility is inaccessible, indestructible, immovable. It is a true foundation and that is why it has been chosen as such.

Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.

He thought about the highest and holiest in life and of what nature it might be: that perhaps it exists only as a dream and cannot survive reality, the awakening. But that it does nevertheless exist. That perfect love exists and the Holy Land exists; it is just that we cannot reach it.

And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically.

But you don't belong here! You're dead!I sobbed against his chest. Zo,babe,this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you. Memory crashed over me, drowning me with despair and darkness and reality as my world shattered,and evrything went black.

People suck. They do stupid things and they're not nice. The end.

How can you expect me to believe that?whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc