Quotes About Reality

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

Always running and always wanting to go back but always being farther and farther away until finally it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.

Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners.

They seem easy to write, but that's the illusion of all good advice. Common sense and truth should feel authorless, write by time itself.

What most people would do in my situation is go to their boyfriend's house. They would go there and cry and be handed tissues and cry some more and never stop to think that they should really be laughing and smiling joyfully because their boyfriend is an actual physical being on the same plane of reality as them.

Dac? n-ar fi fost visele, n-am fi È™tiut niciodat? c? avem un suflet. Lumea real?, concret?, tangibil? ar fi fost tot ce este, singurul vis permis nou?, È™i pentru c? singurul, incapabil s? se recunoasc? pe sine drept vis. Ne îndoim de ea pentru c? vis?m.

Pana la urma ma scufundam totusi in somn, infasurat intr-un cocon de vise scamoase. Ma topeam in vis ca zaharul in apa, alunecam ca un cursor pe cremaliera uitarii. Magistrale ale visului virau brusc in autostrazi ale realitatii, creand constelatii si engrame pe care cineva, de foarte sus, le-ar fi putut citi ca pe un tatuaj multicolor, iar cineva de foarte jos le-ar fi simtit pe propria piele, ca pe tortura sadica a tatuarii." (MIrcea Cartarescu - Orbitor, Aripa stanga)

cu fiecare dragoste tr?ie?ti alt? realitate.

Un lugar tan hermoso no puede existir en realidad. Era literatura, era ficción, y nosotros éramos los personajes de un poema.

Hay un lugar en el mundo donde lo imposible es posible, se trata de la ficción, es decir, la literatura. Allí las leyes del cálculo de probabilidades pueden ser infringidas, allí puede aparecer un hombre más poderoso que el azar. El Ruletista no podía vivir en el mundo, lo cual es en cierto modo una forma de decir que el mundo en el que él vivía era ficticio, que era literatura.

Everything is interior and reality is only an illusory artifact.

Fiindc? nu putem scoate lumea din burta, de chinuim s? o scoatem din cap.

As a writer, you make yourself less real with each book you write. [...] The despair you feel is that of one who lives in two dimensions and is trapped inside a square, in the middle of an infinite piece of paper.

No podías sembrar el sueño en el mundo, porque el propio mundo era un sueño.

el orgullo del que se sabe en posesión del mundo verdadero, del que sabe que precisamente la nada, la muerte y la putrefacción, las ruinas y las heces y la mugre, el sufrimiento y las atrocidades son la verdad, que el mundo es un infierno en el que florece el moho precario del paraíso, ilusorio como la pelusa de un diente de león.

Tr?im într-o puÈ™c?rie fermec?toare, nu mai puÈ›in magic? decât orice ne putem închipui.

caci abia acum se vadea ceea ce toti presimtisera intr-un moment sau altul al vietii lor: ca realitatea e doar un caz particular al irealului, si ca suntem totii, oricat de concreti ne-am simti, doar fictiunea cine stie carei alte lumi, ce ne creeaza si ne cuprinde ...

C?ut?m prosteÈ™te, c?ut?m în locuri în care nu e nimic de g?sit, ca p?ianjenii ce-È™i È›es plasa în s?li de baie în care nicio musc?, niciun È›ânÈ›ar nu poate p?trunde.

Cum spunea Wittgenstein, nu sunt posibile miracole în lume, singurul miracol este însuÈ™i faptul c? lumea exist?.

Despair . . . is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality—it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it. —PHILIP SLATER, Earthwalk

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

Man sollte sich nie etwas Unmögliches wünschen, denn wer von Palästen träumt, verliert seinen Platz in der Hütte.

Odonda je prošlo ve? mnogo vremena a on nije naslikao ništa poslije ona dva-tri sretna jesenja dana on nije dugo ve? doživio ništa što bi bilo vrijedno da se uop?e doživi vu?e se po kavanama živi me?u ovim dvonošcima koji nose kišobrane i uvijek kada govore govore o ne?em stvarnom o kruhu ili o mesu mi?u ?eljustima i zubalima od kau?uka a sve je jalovo i nema nikakvog višeg razloga za opstanak.