Quotes About Reality

Could this be a dream or the ultimate nightmare?

Even Time kneels before the mightiness of Perception.

Nothing is as it seems for we humans often look at something as we wish to see it, not as it actually is.

Nothing is ever simple in this world and is unlikely to be so in any other for that matter.

Of our world of war, we are ignorant of our insignificance in the universes.

Reality always manages to make things much worse than that of which imagination can conjure.

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.

There is a big difference between what one knows, what one believes and the true reality.

This world is all subjectivity.

To imagine is oh so better than to know, yet too, so very inferior.

To me, They are as real as you and I.

True and lasting happiness can never be achieved in this world far human nature and the very nature of this life do not allow if so.

Your pain defines you. Furthermore, those who are cushioned from pain are further from their truth than any other soul.

Les hallucinations dangereuses peuvent venir le jour ; mais, elles viennent surtout la nuit.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

You cannot deceive the mirror

It is a passing strange, George said. In the summer, I complained about the heat. I remember it was unbearable, but the memory no longer seems truly real. With the white ground and frost in the air, I convince myself I would give anything to sweat once more - and if I did, I do not doubt I would yearn to return to this cold. Man is a fickle creature, Richard.

This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.

Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.

That ain't right," Addy said. "It ain't, but it's the way things is," Sarah said.

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.

Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted—and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.