Quotes About Reality

Jonathan Swift

There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

Yo no sabía si era yo quien siempre elegía mal las compañías o si la gente acababa siendo diferente de lo que yo pensaba" - Déjame que te cuente

Cuando nos deshacemos de la ilusión, es decir de la idea de lo que es el otro, comienza la real posibilidad de que el amor suceda, porque el amor sólo se da entre dos personas de carne y hueso y no entre dos ilusiones.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Algunas diferencias son irreconciliables y deben ser aceptadas así. Uno puede amar y respetar a su compañero y aprender a aceptar la realidad existencial de que no todos los problemas se pueden resolver. El

El envejecimiento (igual que la muerte) es una de las pocas características democráticas y ecuánimes de nuestra condición humana; algo que nos unifica y define a todos más allá de nuestras diversidades y de la realidad de un mundo tan cambiante

La pareja real no puede evitar el sufrimiento. Una se da cuenta y se queda sola "hasta que aparezca" la pareja ideal (que por ser ideal justamente no existe) con lo cual el sufrimiento, lejos de evitarse, reaparece constantemente.

Gerçek benim düÅŸündüÄŸüm gibi deÄŸil. Olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi deÄŸil. Bana olaca??n? söyledikleri gibi deÄŸil. Yar?n olaca?? gibi deÄŸil. Benim d???mdaki gerçek neyse odur.

A Osvaldo le pasó lo que a todos, que nos creemos el cuento de que nos va a ir bien en la vida.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.