Quotes About Reality

I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence. Trouble is, you climb and climb, and around middle age, you discover you have spent all the time in the same spot. You thought you were going to be somebody until you slip down into the nobody that you are. I'm telling you because I know.

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here.

Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.

I know the calcium of your cheekbones. I know the weapon of your jaw. I have held your head in my hands but I have never held you. Not you in your spaces, spirit, electrons of life.

The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case.

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

The true nature of the world is energy not mass.

It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

Nothing is solid. Nothing is fixed. These are images that time changes and that change time, just as the sun and the rain play on the surface of things.

I tried not to marry you because neither of us have a happy-ever-after story written inside us.

The arts aren't a leisure industry - the arts have always been an imaginative and emotional wrestle with reality -a series of inventions and creations. A capacity to think differently, a willingness to change our understanding of ourselves. To help us be wiser, more reflective, less frightened people.

Most of us can only see the world we know.

we have to know what we are doing, pretending an order that doesn't exist, to make a security that cannot exist.

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Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war? Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.

Should be great. But when have things ever worked out great? In the human dream?

Optimal's logo reads: The Future Is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?

This voyage of ours is lonely--the more so if we find a companion, only to suffer the bitterest loss. In truth we are alone.

I'm living on my memories like a cheap has-been.

I think I may have missed the world, that the one I've seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.

Just because you can't tell what it is, doesn't mean it's not what it is.

In theory you are right... Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.