Quotes About Reality

Osecaj, cak i istancan osecaj za lepotu prirode nije jednak religioznom osecanju, mada verujem da su oba intimno povezana... gotovo svako poseduje osecaj za prirodu... ali samo malo njih oseca: Bog je duh, i onoi koji u njega veruju, moraju to ciniti i u duhu i u stvarnosti.

Todas essas coisas, família, pátria, talvez sejam mais encantadoras na imaginação de pessoas como nós, que passamos muito bem sem pátria e sem família, do que em qualquer realidade.

Mesmo esta vida artística, que sabemos não ser a verdadeira, parece-me tão vívida e seria uma ingratidão não contentar-se com ela.

I had left romantic illusions behind me. I must make up for lost time now. I must work hard, but just when one has left the lost illusions behind, work becomes a necessity and one of the few pleasures left. And this gives a great quiet and tranquillity.

Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I'm not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

Trust not too much to appearances.

She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

La vie se joue souvent en deux manches: dans un premier temps, elle t'endort en te faisant croire que tu gères, et sur la deuxième partie, quand elle te voit détendu et désarmé, elle repasse les plats et te défonce.

Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you're in control; in the second, when it sees you're relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.

People who have kids are constantly boring the shit out of people who haven't. But they can't stand it if you tell them the truth – when I look at your life it makes me want to do anything but.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

Porn is somehow supposed to be real--something we never expect of film, by its very nature a technique of illusion. We expect porn to show us exactly what we dread about it: the truth of our desire.

Il ne va pas crever tout seul. La petite innocente jolis yeux, il va lui montrer d'un seul coup, à quoi ressemble son monde à lui.

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

Hollywood is too busy trying to make old formulas hit the jackpot again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up with what's happening today. This will change only when it becomes financially profitable, and reality will never be profitable until society overcomes its fear and hatred of difference and begins to see that we're all in this together

The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.