Quotes About Reality

A arte de sofrer é inconsciente... E é preciso fingir que se vive, é preciso.

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.

Sure, but real life's not actually like that," Quentin went on, fumbling after what he was sure was an important insight. "You don't just go on fun adventures for good causes and have happy endings. You're not going to be a character in a story, there's nobody arranging everything for you. The real world just doesn't work like that.

When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

When she looked back the whole thing had a queer, unreal feeling to it, but then again you often get a queer, unreal feeling when you stay up till four and get up at seven.

Probably falling in love is always a little like that: You discover that one other person who understands what no one else seems to, which is that the world is broken and can never, ever be fixed. You can stop pretending, at least for a little while. You can both admit it, if only to each other.

He'd spent too long being disappointed by the world - he'd spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof that the real world wasn't the only world, and coping with the overwhelming evidence that it in fact was.

Wishes are for children," Jane Chatwin said. "I grew up.

They were where he went when he couldn't deal with the real world, which was a lot.

Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he's still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause.

The quietness of it was weird: real fights happened without a sound track.

a silver statue of a bird that seemed to be twitching. "Poor little thing," he said, petting it with his large hands. "Someone tried to change it into a real bird, but it got stuck in between. It thinks it's alive, but it's much too heavy to fly." The metal bird cheeped feebly, a dry, clicking noise like an empty pistol. Fogg sighed and put it away in a drawer. "It's always launching itself out of windows and landing in the hedges.

In real life humans didn't slay giants, because it was impossible. It would be like killing an apartment building with your bare hands.

For the true magician there is no very clear line between what lies inside the mind and what lies outside it.If you desire something, it will become substance. If you despise it, you will see it destroyed. A master magician is not much different from a child or a madman in that respect. It takes a very clear head and a very strong will to operate once you are in that place. And you will find out very quickly whether or not you have that clarity and that strength.

He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. There