Quotes About Reality

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra

So I ignored the rest. I ignored everything that told me nothing was as I'd believed. That was my first mistake.

Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto

Then I saw it. Little pins of light that grew larger as I watched, a city that seemed to bloom from the darkness, spreading and spreading so that I couldn't tell what was real and what was only reflection.

There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want them to be.

Las Vegas is no more sinful than anywhere else. It's just more honest.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.

I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there's no other choice. He has a life, and so do I. No matter what I want, the sun has come up and the world will not fade away.

You look like a goddess when you come, did you know that?" "I'm not a goddess." "Not a goddess. Not an angel. Not a devil. Are you a ghost? Because you can't be real." "I'm real.

Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.

Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.

I want to tell you that you'll know love when it hits you, and it will all be great and you'll find that one person who makes your heart sing, the end, happily ever after. I want to do that for you, I really do. But I'm just not that person. I'm sorry.

It was a kiss perfect in length and pressure and emotion, but unlike in the movies it didn't make everything all better.