Quotes About Reality

The fact that everyone's days were numbered, and it didn't matter if you were in premier class or worked in housekeeping. Those were only costumes people wore. And once you stripped them away you saw the truth. This giant ocean and this dark pressing sky. We only have a few minutes, but the unexplainable world is constant and forever marching forward.

The most brutal truth Is the truth unspoken and Pain is spawned by a faulty connection.

Ultrarealists have something many of us don't—an extraordinary readiness to face reality—and if you want to fulfill your own potential, you want that too.

The same willingness to face reality that allows certain athletes to accept a negative turn of events also helps them bear what must be borne to address the bad situation.

people often choose to expect the worst of an upcoming experience in hopes of creating a more favorable contrast between their expectations and reality.

Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.

Right." Doctor Cherryman's face lit up. Here was a way for him to grapple with the problem that the reality of vampires had presented to him. "Let's say vampires exist. What does that mean?" "That they're bloodsucking murderers here to kill us all?" Lucy and the Doctor gaped at Quin's bald-faced assessment. "Tell me I'm wrong," Quin said.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?

To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called 'The World'. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.

We only know what we perceive.  Everything we perceive is ultimately just our perception of it. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her, of having a mundane conversation about how our days had been. The gentle but unbettered comfort of coexistence. I couldn't think of a better purpose for the universe than for her to be in it.

you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them.

You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and he certainly tried to be happy, but sometimes being happy is quite tricky. I suppose what I am saying is that Nikloas was a boy who believed in happiness, the way he believed in elves and trolls and pixies, but he had never actually seen an elf or a troll or a pixie, and he hadn't really seen proper happiness either. At least, not for a very long time. He didn't have it easy.