Quotes About Reality

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

There never was a story that was happy through and through

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.

Sommige mensen wachten hun hele leven op applaus van de wereld en pas vlak voor hun dood komen ze tot de ontdekking dat ze voor een lege zaal hebben staan spelen.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography -- but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.

the comic inadequacy of consciousness trying to make terms with the rest of everything that is.

there's a difference between what happens to one in real life and what one can make real in art.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

When we fight back with joy, we embrace a reality that is more real than what we're enduring and we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, joyful children of God.

I was just telling the truth, but people always seem to think you're stark, staring mad when you do that.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

The energy now spent on self-protection can be converted into positive energy if we're willing to encounter reality and see it clearly. Facing reality is an empowering act - it can liberate our mind and heart to discern how best to use our power and influence in service for this time.

Whatever is happening to Pique isn't what I think is happening, whatever that may be. What happened to me wasn't what anyone else thought was happening, and maybe not even what I thought was happening at the time. A popular misconception is that we can't change the past–everyone is constantly changing their own past, recalling it, revising it. What really happened? A meaningless question. But one I keep trying to answer, knowing there is no answer.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Puedes fotografiar simplemente la realidad o puedes buscar -¿el qué? -Algo que pasa pero no se ve, aparece luego.

He (Friedrich Engel de Jánosis) stated clearly that he was the last Engel de Jánosis, when in fact he knew he was not. He left behind his mother, wife, and daughter, all of them Engel de Jánosis. And then there were the Hungarian Engel de Jánosis, his aunts, uncles, cousins still alive in Pécs and in other towns and villages in Hungary. He knew this. They were not dead, not yet anyway, but in his mind, they were. Already, the historian was rewriting history.

The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...