Quotes About Reality

All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.

Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee's age, and you realize that some of the world's badness is inside you, that maybe you're a part of it.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.

Siz makineler dünyas?nda ya??yorsunuz ve kalbi çarpan ?eylerin dü?ünü kuruyorsunuz.Biz makineleri dü?lüyoruz çünkü çarpan kalplerin bizi terk etti?ini gördük.

But the door …' Tom grinned. 'Was only ever in your mind.

Gloriously, I've also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That's what a novelist is: I'm not a creating god, I'm reality's jailor.

Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.

Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down.

I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero… como yo en aquel tiempo.

The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

But Pinocchio's just a story," said Billy. "It's not real." "That's exactly what I told Dr. Libris! When I did, he shook his head and said I had 'no imagination whatsoever.' Ã¢â'¬Â "That's awful." "Yeah. Dr. Libris can be kind of crabby. That's why I never rowed out to his island except that one time. Didn't want him going all grumpy on me.

This is all a dream and we're both asleep right now.

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979): "Today's novel feature is the flattening out of the antagonism between culture and social reality through the obliteration of the oppositional, alien, and transcendent elements in the higher culture by virtue of which it constituted another dimension of reality.