Quotes About Reality

Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. And the people of the Gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them.

A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities- never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino's future was real, but having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it, and this he knew, so that he had to prepare to meet the attack. And this Kino knew also- that the gods do not love men's plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident.

Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.

Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.

There's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it.

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

A man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world.

and what is truth?

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

No one could call him a liar. And this was mainly because the lie was in his head, and any truth coming from his mouth carried the color of the lie.

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty

Quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously—a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.

At the very first he knew he was lying, but it was not long before he was equally sure that every one of his stories was true.

Unii vor spune ca povestea asta este o minciuna, ceea ce nu inseamna ca ceva care nu s-a petrecut este numaidecat o minciuna.

Was she very beautiful, Samuel? To you she was because you built her. I don't think you ever saw her--only your own creation.

Difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I

We learned then that war was not a quick heroic charge but a slow, incredibly complicated matter.

Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You're too big for that.

Su sueño del futuro seguía siendo real e indestructible, había dicho «iré» y esto hacía también realidad la partida. Decidir marcharse y decirlo era como estar a medio camino.

A war comes always to someone else...The war, at first anyway, was for other people...And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother of God! that wasn't true either...