Quotes About Reality

The achievement of star status itself would seem to be based not on talent or good looks any more, but on the risks taken for the camera by a whole host of stuntmen brought in from the fairgrounds and circuses: trick riding, controlled falls, suspended accidents and suicidal exploits, leading, with the coming of 'live' transmission, to the 'confessional' TV programme, to the so-called reality show, which shades over, at the edges, into the snuff movie.

For today we hear seemingly normal people, even those with a level head on their shoulders, blithely speaking of love as though it were some frothy feeling of no real consequence.

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

What we see is not always what exists.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in return.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.