Quotes About Reality

It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

That is, when ordinary reality is perceived as a construction rather than as an objective fact, fantasy can no longer be thought of as what contaminates reality, but should instead be regarded as a process of bringing the world alive for us in a particularly vibrant fashion. According to this vision, "reality" is a fantasy that we elaborate on an increasingly intricate level during our entire lifetimes.

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn't a dream of flying. It's a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.

Here's the truth of the world, here it is. You're never everything anyone else wants. In the end it's going to be you, all alone, on a mountain, or you, all alone, in a hospital room. Love isn't enough and you do it anyway. Love isn't enough and it's still this thing that everyone wants.

Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.

Wer liebt, ist blind, taub und stumm. Die Liebe verändert den Rhythmus der Tage. Sie macht uns glauben, es sei Sommer, wenn der Herbstregen fällt. Wir spüren mitten in der Sonne Kälteschauer wie im Winter. Sie ist trügerisch und spielt mit uns, dass wir auf das Unmögliche vertrauen...

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

It's beautiful, of course, to be able to see the day-side of life, truly it is, but those who tell the real truth are those who can see the shadowy side too.

Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

The true basis of the imagination is reality

Happiness is sometimes an illusion. Real happiness lasts more than a moment...

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

But I've learned that living in either the past or the future keeps me up in my head, out of reality, robbing me of the present.

Nem vágytam én arra, hogy tájékoztass a valóságról.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dense that it does not resonate with anything from outside.

Reality is a puzzle revealing itself one portion at a time, always where the deepest shroud falls. Wanting to piece the clues together, you are only losing yourself in the maze.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

Nor till the poets among us can be"literalists ofthe imagination"—aboveinsolence and triviality and can presentfor inspection, "imaginary gardens with realtoads in them," shall we have it.

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.