Quotes About Reality

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter.

Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But you don't believe them.

The truth doesn't stop being the truth just because you don't want to talk about it or won't face it.

Spiritul nu face diferenta intre experienta traita si aceea care este intens imaginata

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it's only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

That's all it is. Information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Klug ist, wer die Wirklichkeit sieht, wie sie ist, wer auf den Grund der Dinge sieht. Klug ist allein, wer die Wirklichkeit in Gott sieht.

Geheimnislos leben heißt, die entscheidenden Vorgänge des Lebens garnicht sehen oder sogar ableugnen.

existence a temporary delusion—hadn

Diodorus held that nothing can be moved, since to be moved it must be taken out of the place in which it is and put into the place where it is not, which is impossible because all things must always be in the places where they are.

Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.

The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.

Agony does not vanish with time. Time does not heal. Time may wear away the sharper pangs of torment and it may be that the agony is a remembered agony, but the littlest remembrance brings vividly alive the reality of pain. Time sifts a little dust over the wounds that is blown away by the simplest reminder. Agony remains.

I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.

On entend souvent parler du "poids des années"... Foutaises ! Le temps nous vide !

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

Nada es excepcional. En todo lugar han sucedido todas las cosas, aún las más inverosímiles y raras, porque el mundo es muy viejo y hace largo tiempo ya que no inventa, que no renueva su stock de posibilidades.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.