Quotes About Reality

They say detailed news doesn't matter. Since we can't change the stupid, greedy, vicious things that powerful people do, they think we should try to ignore them. No matter how many times we're forced to admit we can't really hide, some of us still find ways to try. Well, we can't hide. So it's best to pay attention to what goes on. The more we know, the better able we'll be to survive.

It's hard to believe that kind of thing happened here, in the United States in the twenty-first century, but it did.

I'm no good at denial and self-deception.

Normal,' I muttered. 'I wonder what that is.

Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

It means that Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God.

If you told those deputies the truth," I said softly, "you'd still be locked up—in a mental hospital.

I get a lot of grief that doesn't belong to me, and that isn't real. But it hurts.

He shrugged. "It happened. I saw it. You vanished and you reappeared. Facts.

Mas todos podemos aprender mais. E então, ensinar uns aos outros. Podemos parar de negar a realidade ou esperar que ela desapareça por mágica.

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

My steps along this streetResoundin another streetIn whichI hear my stepsPassing along this streetIn whichOnly the mist is real.

Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it?

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida.

All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

At birth he enters the realm of dreams only to awaken to reality at death.

That's what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.