Quotes About Reality

Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense.

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don't understand what's happening. They see something they don't like and it upsets them—because they don't have the full story, aren't personally facing the problem, and don't know how much worse the alternative could be.

I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.

The capacity of humanity to deny what is right in front of it is staggering.

Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.

But you can't ignore things that are real just because they're uncomfortable.

We're all imaginary friends to one another

Hell's bells, Morty, I said. Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into deluding myself into deluding him into deluding me that I made the whole thing up.

What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love.

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?

The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry.

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody. And that's pretty much the fairest thing about it.

Can't you, like, enhance these?" "No," Gary said flatly. "Because I don't have imaginary movie powers.

There is no spoon.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living.

I'm not stupid. I've got eyes. I see some things everyone else tries to pretend aren't there. This vampire craze sweeping the nation. Why the hell shouldn't there be some genuine vampires in it?

I hate dreams like this," I said. "There's no plot—just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I'm awake.

They say that you're the real thing, Mister Dresden. A real magus." "They also say I'm nutty as a fruitcake." "I choose which 'they' I listen to very carefully

He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult.

There is world that should be, he [Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe'] growled, and the world that is. We live in one. And must create the other, Ebenezer retorted, if it is ever to be.

They're just itching for me to lead them in some meaningful crusade against evil. Hell, I have trouble just paying the bills.

Mab did not descend from her high seat so much as reality itself seemed to take a polite step to one side.