Quotes About Reality

One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Any thoughtful physicist, he said, well schooled in quantum mechanics, would agree that all time exists simultaneously, which I subsequently learned was the case. In truth, Father said, as the first instant of the universe, all of time was present, all our yesterdays and today and all our tomorrows, everyone and everything that was and ever would be existed at that moment.

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

Winny had learned from books... you had to be tested in life to discover who you were and what you were capable of doing. Hopeless sissy, noble warrior, maniac - he could be anything, and he wouldn't know until he was tested. One thing he could never be was Santa Claus. Nobody could be Santa Claus. Santa Claus wasn't real like the FedEx guy.

she loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.

But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him.

Mr. Thomas, did you know that in an experiment with a human observer, subatomic particles behave differently from the way they behave when the experiment is observed while in progress and the results are examined, instead, only after the fact? Sure. Everybody knows that. He raised one bushy eyebrow. Everybody, you say. Well then you realize what this signifies. I said, At least on an subatomic level, human will can in part shape reality.

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?

With time, however, life had become too real

When he looked away from her, the bottles were gone and with them all the vertical and horizontal currents of water and brandy that represented the omnidirectional tides of time's ocean.

His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any in the world.

The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simple, self-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air. Watching weather clarified his thinking. Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. To

Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.

What most people call truth is merely the surface, and under it lies a great depth of truth that they do not perceive.

Once, when cornered by a pinwheel-eyed man who insisted that the mayor of Los Angeles was not human but a robot controlled by the audioanimatronics department at Disneyland, Joe had lowered his voice and said, with nervous sincerity, "Yes, we've known about that for years. But if we print a word of it, the people at Disney will kill us all." He had spoken with such conviction that the nutball had exploded backward and fled.

On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh

Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than in others.

Don't be expectin' milk and honey, and maybe then you'll get yourself some.

Most people unconsciously blind themselves to the true nature of existence, because they fear knowing that this world is a place of mystery and meaning. It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.