Quotes About Reality

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true !

She shook her head and whispered, No. No! That can't be true. Impossible! You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn't enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that's not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

Nothing is just anything.

It was nothing more than what it was.

There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.

But we shouldn't believe things because it makes us happy to, she thought. We should believe things because they're true, and if that makes us unhappy, that's very unfortunate, but it's not the reason of fault.

Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

Was there only one world after all, which spent its time dreaming of others?

Instead, we should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once the people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things will be open to us.

When you're young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don't.

wish Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it.

But we shouldn't believe things because it makes us happy, she thought. We should believe things because they're true, and if that makes us unhappy that's very unfortunate, but it's not the fault of reason.

nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

Or had she imagined it, and was her imagination just a spindrift of falsity?

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. —William Blake

Will knew that the man was speaking the truth. But it wasn't a welcome truth. It was heavy and painful

She felt light-headed, as if part of her were somewhere else and dreaming of this, and she'd wake up soon and find everything normal.

But some time during the next few months, Will realized slowly and unwillingly that those enemies of his mother's were not in the world out there, but in her mind. That made them no less real, no less frightening and dangerous; it just meant he had to protect her even more carefully.

When you're young you do think that things last forever. Unfortunately, they don't.