Quotes About Reality

Your journey is towards your homeland. Remember you are travelling from the world of appearances to the world of Reality. – Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani

The Sufi is interested in neither this world nor the next, in neither heaven nor hell. He will pay any price to reach Reality in this life. The price is that "everything has to go," and like any mental belief, the values of good and bad can be a limitation. Even the desire to renounce must be left behind. One Sufi poet wrote: "On the hat of poverty three renouncements are inscribed: 'Quit this world, quit the next world, quit quitting.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane !

Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

If it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and has whiskers like a cat, it's probably a damn cat. But if it eats your groceries, messes up your kitchen, and makes you want to rip out your hair by the roots, you either married it or gave birth to it

Maybe there's no such thing as happily ever after. Maybe okay for now is the best you get.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Le bonheur est une illusion d'optique, deux miroirs qui se renvoient la même image à l'infini. N'essayez pas de remonter à l'image d'origine, il n'y en a pas.

Je n'aime personne et je ne fous rien, je ne veux pas tenter de me distraire, ou de m'occulter la vérité. La vie est une saloperie, et chaque seconde de lucidité est un supplice.

Tout ce temps, tous ces visages, tous ces cris de jouissance, ces étreintes sans âme au petit matin, quand la nuit n'est plus, le jour n'est pas encore, ton orgasme prend fin, et tes yeux se dessillent, ta chambre n'est qu'un bordel, Baudelaire est mort et, dans tes bras, il n'y a qu'une putain...

Désillusionnée avant l'âge, je dégueule sur la facticité des sentiments.