Quotes About Reality

Livet är inrättat för de gamla, därför är det en olycka att vara ung. Det är inrättat för de tanklösa och slöa, för dem som ta falskt för äkta eller till och med föredrar det falska, därför är det en sjukdom att tänka och känna, en barnsjukdom som man måste gå igenom innan man blir man...

Mina drömmar om kärleken - des tycktes mig en gång att de voro så nära, så nära att bli verklighet.

Una mujer embarazada es una cosa horrible. Un niño recién nacido es repugnante. Un lecho de muerte rara vez produce una impresión tan abominable como un nacimiento, esa atroz sinfonía de chillidos, porquería y sangre

Världen är inte god för dem som älska. Och in i mörkret bär det ju alltid till sist, för dem och för oss alla.

Hon var inte vaken då hon gifte sig med den människan, hon gjorde det i sömnen. I drömmen ske ju ofta de besynnerligaste saker, och de förefalla fullkomligt naturliga och vanliga - i drömmen. Men då man vaknar och erinrar sig vad man har drömt, häpnar man och gapskrattar eller ryser. Nu har hon vaknat!

Maska ir ?r?j? paties?ba. Nevis t?p?c, ka atkl?j, kas aiz t?s sl?pjas, bet t?p?c, ka aiz t? nek? nav.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.

I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it

Magic is seldom so convenient as to conform to our preferences.

Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.

Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.