Quotes About Reality

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

What's the world's greatest lie? the boy asked, completely surprised. 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.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairytales , the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Evidently this safety is completely false; no one can control anything, and a change always appears at the moment one least expects it, taking us surprise and with no chance to react or fight.

instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.

I can't be in love with a man who lives in another world.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot?

Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as harsh reality.

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.

You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss

Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man.

Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and 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 realize our dreams.

I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes

If you understand life you need a reality check.