Quotes About Reality

The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—a life into which, although it was my own, I had no power to penetrate—this idea gave me no rest.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

This ain't what we are, homes," Lalo says. "This is not us. This is the story they tell about us, but it's not true.

Of course, fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so their confusion is a matter of only relative importance.

Añadiré —Dalí me lo hizo observar— que los surrealistas eran guapos.

No one's really interested in other people's dreams, so I won't dwell on the subject, although I find it impossible to explain a life without talking about the part that's underground—the imaginative, the unreal.

La memoria es invadida constantemente por la imaginación y el ensueño, y puesto que existe la tentación de creer en la realidad de lo imaginario, acabamos por hacer una verdad de nuestra mentira.

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

the world on all sides is bankrupt and that life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Com outra - diz ele - se sentiria como essas pessoas com diploma em física nuclear ou engenharia eletrônica que acabam trabalhando de garçom.

Sempre escrevemos para recordar a verdade. Quando inventamos, é para recordá-la mais exatamente.

Cuando la realidad molesta demasiado, simplemente se cambia.

Cuanto mejor era ser espectador de la gran farsa de la vida humana que desempeñar en ella un papel de actor, aunque fuera secundario! ¡Cuánto mejor ser libre que esclavo de un gran empeño que, como todos los grandes empeños, tarde o temprano acabaría por mostrar su condición ilusoria y estéril!

Si quieren ser albañiles, decidles que arquitectos, y si arquitectos que ministros de la vivienda. No permitáis nunca que se cumpla el afán, no pongáis los sueños al alcance de los niños para que nunca sean tan miserables como vosotros...

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Only this reality is real now, only this place is real, sitting in the lonely cell of your will...

siempre lo que sucede en la realidad es más impresionante de lo que uno cree de lo que uno se imagina que pueda ser

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'," he said. "There is only one truth. You'll live to find that out.

Auch Freundschaften mündeten in den Fluss der Zeit und verschwanden darin. Und im Rückblick erwiesen sie sich als Rinnsale und nicht als anschwellende Bäche, wie man gerne geglaubt hätte.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.