Quotes About Reality

A wish is a dream come true. Since dreams are never clear, they invariably disappoint.

Normalno?? to pierwszy symptom ?miertelnej choroby.

Quello che in letteratura la gente chiama ironia, di solito nella vita vera si chiama dolore, incomprensione e disgrazia [...].

If present reality contradicts such a vision, if they prefer to reject economic modernisation in favour of defence of tradition, if their nation has fallen behind its neighbour across the Rhine, if polls in the summer of 2014 showed that 90 per cent of respondents did not believe their elected president could handle the problems facing them, this leaves them feeling deprived of what they believe should be theirs by historic right and opens them to the temptation of extremist illusions.

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it. He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man would need to survive an entire life so lonely.

Alfred believed that the real and the true were a minority that the world was bent on exterminating.

To paraphrase Frank Zappa, she'd thought it was a man she wanted, but instead it was a muffin.

I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity.

He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.

Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.

The country that minutely followed every phony turn of American Idol while the world went up in flames seemed to Walter fully deserving of whatever nightmare future awaited it. He

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend?

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

You wouldn't believe how quickly the most interesting person in the world can turn into the most boring person you'll ever meet.

since a person couldn't exist in two places at once, the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

He was so immersed and implicated in the Internet, so enmeshed in its totalitarianism, that his online existence was coming to seem realer than his physical self.

What's it do?" she said. "Absolutely nothing," Hibbard replied, "if you are in perfect mental health. However, let's face it, who is?

Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal.

Science and delusion had no ground in common.

Each of us thinks we see the world directly, as it really is. We further believe that the facts as we see them are there for all to see, therefore others should agree with us. If they don't agree, it follows either that they have not yet been exposed to the relevant facts or else that they are blinded by their interests and ideologies.