Quotes About Reality

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there.

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Haydi yürüyelim, masal anlat?c?lar?, yüreÄŸin özlediÄŸi yem her ne ise ona sar?lal?m ve korkmayal?m. Her ÅŸey canl?, her ÅŸey gerçek ve yeryüzü ayaklar?m?z alt?ndaki y?k?nt? sadece.

Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you've been asleep for eight years? Nobody's that depressed.

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?

though this dog, like so many others in this place, was gigantic. That's when it occurred to me: it wasn't that the people and the dogs were huge; it was that I was little. I was a tiny little dog! I had met tiny dogs in my life, of course. But I had never before considered that I might be one—I had always been large, because people sometimes need the protection a large dog affords them.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Truth, my friend, is food, shelter, warmth, companionship, and living to see another sunset. There, damn you. How much more elemental can you get? That's Truth.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.

But is it really you behind the pretenses beyond dust and distances beneath the salt and the siren announcements and ancient impurities and decays that claim to be you

Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.