Quotes About Reality

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Can the memory of love be worth more than its presence and reality?

I dream with open eyes,' he answered, looking around at the door, 'and others see my dreams. That is all.

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not, usually, that the writer has invented something without precedent, but that she has made us "perceive" what we already, in a conceptual sense, "know", by deviating from the conventional, habitual ways of representing reality. Defamiliarization, in short, is another word for "originality". I shall have recourse to it again in these glances at the art of fiction.

What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

It's dark now. But they feel each others' breath. And they know all they need to know. They kiss. And they feel each others' tears on their cheeks. And if there had been anybody left to see them, then they would look like normal lovers, caressing each others' faces, bodies close together, eyes closed, oblivious to the world around them. Because that is how life goes on. Like that.

It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

It's only words... unless they're true.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

Someone's opinion of you isn't reality... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!!

There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.