Quotes About Reality

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

The ego is a jealous god, and it wants its interests served. It does not want to admit the reality of any dimensions except those within which it feels comfortable and can understand. It was meant to be an aid but it has been allowed to become a tyrant.

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

We evoke the world we perceive.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake, and I am cast over the cliff and hang there by two fingers that are danced and trampled on by the giant unreality.

People do not cry because it is the end. They cry because the end does not correspond with their imagination of it. Their first choice is always their own imagining; they refuse to be deterred by warnings. They say I choose this because although the price is high the thing itself is more precious, durable and beautiful. The light of imagined events is always so arranged that the customers do not see the flaws in what they have chosen to buy with their dreams.

we are herded to bed and the day's thin scenery topples revealing, for those who sleep, the painted props of sleep. The rest lie in the dark and wait for morning and hope, against certain belief, that what the voices tell them is not true.

We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget nor help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighbourhood of light we see our own face.

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Time is so...fluid where I live

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

If you don't believe it's elves, that's your problem. I know it's elves.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.