Quotes About Reality

A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

De que vale ter voz se só quando não falo é que me entendem? De que vale acordar se o que vivo é menos do que o que sonhei?

Ele já tinha visto os homens. E aqueles não eram diferentes dos que conhecera antes. Começamos por pensar que são heróis. Em seguida, aceitamos que são patriotas. Mais tarde, que são homens de negócios. Por fim, que não passam de ladrões.

Talvez, quem sabe, cumprisse o que sempre fora: sonhador de lembranças, inventor de verdades. Um sonâmbulo passeando entre o fogo. Um sonâmbulo como a terra em que nascera.

Então não há os vivos que têm os olhos mortos?

Onde, nos outros, há lembranças, em mim apenas há mentiras e miragens.

Todos elogiam o sonho, que é o compensar da vida. Mas é o contrário, Doutor. A gente precisa do viver para descansar dos sonhos

A felicidade é uma coisa que os poderosos criaram para ilusão dos mais pobres.

E contra factos tudo são argumentos.

Todos elogiam o sonho, que é o compensar da vida. Mas é o contrário, Doutor. A gente precisa de viver para descansar dos sonhos. - Sonhar só o faz ficar mais vivo. - Para quê? Estou cansado de ficar vivo. Ficar vivo não é viver, Doutor.

Há mulheres que procuram um homem que lhes abra o mundo. Outras buscam um que as tire do mundo. A maior parte, porém, acaba se unindo a alguém que lhes tira o mundo.

I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me.

I tell it like it is, from real experience. I want to tell people that freedom is great, but that it can also be dangerous.

The true statement 'Is is is' is a fact of reality.

Most people have some kind of lifestyle vision for retirement, unfortunately without proper planning their dreams don't always become a reality as they enter the encore time of their lives. Quoted from CPA Practice Advisor-October 5, 2015

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn't close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction.

I don't know how else to describe it. I am afraid to say: 'I believe in the dream per se.' Just as it is, just as it was, just as when I am empty of night when I haven't dreamt.

Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

No one escapes from life alive.