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Quotes About Reality

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.
~ Jim Butcher
What I believe doesn't matter, Mr. Dresden. What is important is that a lot of the scum out there believe in it. It affects the way they think and operate. If I could make use of your advice to solve this case, I would, the same as any other law officer.
~ Jim Butcher
You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.
~ Jim Butcher
There is the world that should be," he growled, "and the world that is. We live in one." "And must create the other," Ebenezar retorted, "if it is ever to be.
~ Jim Butcher
There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.
~ Jim Butcher
But feeling true isn't the same as being true. In fact, feelings don't have very much to do with the truth at all.
~ Jim Butcher
It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.
~ Jim Butcher
In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks.
~ Jim Butcher
Wanna know a secret?" "Always." "Only the young think being called old is an insult," I said, still smiling. "I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has
~ Jim Butcher
It didn't matter how bleak the situation or how stultifying their mediocrity, they all maintained unwavering faith that they would not just survive, but prevail as a great company. And yet, at the same time, they became relentlessly disciplined at confronting the most brutal facts of their current reality.
~ Jim Collins
In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.
~ Jim Davis
another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin clocks but break down at inappropriate times.
~ Jim Harrison
Much earlier in this century an Austrian journalist, Karl Kraus, pointed out that if you actually perceived the true reality behind the news you would run, screaming, into the streets. I have run screaming into the streets dozens of times but have always managed to return home in time for dinner-and usually an hour early so that I can help in the preparation.
~ Jim Harrison
Nous sommes imprégnés de cynisme, d'explications psychologiques ou autres, mais la vie est toujours là, ainsi que son essence inacessible, son cycle aussi sûrement installé qu'autrefois.
~ Jim Harrison
In fancy Los Angeles hotel rooms there is always an uncomfortable number of mirrors that remind us why we are not movie stars.
~ Jim Harrison
Naturally, both sides of the family seemed utterly normal to me at the time but a great deal less so in retrospect.
~ Jim Harrison
A sonic boom crushes a baby mink's skull. We know that. Isn't it enough?
~ Jim Harrison
I turn off the notification app for good, no longer needing to know exactly how many gone. After all, clinging to life is what we have always done best. We are still trying to hide from the truth of things and who can blame us.
~ Jim Moore
Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?
~ Jim Morrison
One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.
~ Jim Morrison
Svi tvrde da postoji jedan svijet... Ja tvrdim da postoje dva... Jedan je moj, a drugi dijelite kako ho?ete...
~ Jim Morrison
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.
~ Jim Morrison
Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.
~ Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
~ Jim Morrison