Quotes About Reality

Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say "I love you." I think just the opposite—that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them.

Siempre he esperado con ilusión hacerme adulto, porque pensaba que el mundo adulto era... bueno... adulto, que los adultos no eran exclusivistas ni desagradables, que la idea de ir a la última o de ser sofisticado o popular dejaría de marcar la vida social, pero empezaba a darme cuenta de que el mundo de los adultos era tan absurdamente brutal y peligoros en lo social como lo era en el reino de la infancia.

A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

So, too, if we wish to speak of God meaningfully, in ways that engage the people of today, we cannot do so by forcing them to swallow an ancient reality that is demonstrably not real.

I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it.

reality isn't what it used to be.

no one lives in the scripted places of the Bible all the time, where God shows up as planned, tells us exactly what we need to do, and things work out

Rulebook Bible reading" shortchanges the depth and raw reality of Israel's own journey of faith in God.

A myth is a story about the gods at the dawn of time that helps explain why things are the way they are here and now. Ancient people in general were quite keen on seeing the world around them in light of a bigger reality, namely the cosmic realm. Myths connect these two worlds.

A faith that eats its own not only drives people out but also sends up a red flare to the rest of humanity that Christianity is just another exclusive members-only club, and that Jesus is a lingering relic of antiquity, rather than a powerful, present-defining spiritual reality; a means of gaining power rather than relinquishing it. And who needs that, really?

Consciousness is just a window into time.

Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum

Time is always constant to the observer

All because I was too stupid to learn from past mistakes. Just like all the other dreaming fools throughout history, wrapped up with seductive, clean equations, their simplistic, isolated elegance, giving no thought to the messy, bloody, physical application that was their ultimate reality. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch. And for what?