Quotes About Reality

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.

In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

I asked her, Are you an optimist or a pessimist? She looked at her watch and said, I'm optimistic. Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. Why do beautiful songs make you sad? Because they aren't true. Never? Nothing is beautiful and true. She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, You sound just like Dad.

I opened the coffin. I was surprised again, although again I shouldn't have been. I was surprised that Dad wasn't there. In my brain I knew he wouldn't be, obviously, but I guess my heart believed something else. Or maybe I was surprised by incredibly empty it was. I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

Are they both special? He cracked up and said, Of course their pop is gonna say they're special. But objectively. What's that? Like, factually. Truthfully. The truth is I'm their pop.

Peki güzel ÅŸark?lar neden üzüyor seni? Gerçek olmad?klar? için. Hiç mi? Hiçbir ÅŸey hem gerçek hem de güzel deÄŸildir.

Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!

Julia hated to see nervous children. She wanted to go to her, give her an inspirational talk—explain that life changes, and what is weak becomes strong, and what is a dream becomes a reality that requires a new dream.

gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei.

Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.

Life is scarier than death

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

Life is upsetting," Irv said. "Like blood is wet.

que vinieron a confirmarme más en mi vieja convicción de que no existe nada demasiado irracional y disparatado que no haya sido sostenido como verdad alguna vez por los filósofos.

Herkes uzun yaÅŸamak ister ama kimse yaÅŸlanmak istemez.