Quotes About Reality

Pensaba en darle las gracias a ella por haberlo salvado de andar por ahí- y ese, si uno quiere, puede ser el sentido del matrimonio: librarlo a uno de uno mismo e impedirle perderse en sus ficciones- creyéndose por encima del bien y del mal, comiéndose el cuento chino de su propio triunfo

Hope?! Hope is a bit desperate, isn't it? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.

Sal didn't think in Ifs. If led to If only Macey wasn't sick, and even If only Sal's bone marrow was a match. If never did anybody any good at all.

That seemed dangerous. If your internal map of reality doesn't match external conditions, bad things happen.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

Forgive us our fantasies. It's all we have.

I don't want the void. I don't want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .

The Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz once said, "The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Quid est enim fids nisi crdere quod nn vids? (Augustine Evang. Iohan.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There can be no understanding of the church as community in New Testament terms apart from the prior reality of God's election of a covenant people, as narrated in the Old Testament.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Love is a fake!" Olson was blaring. "There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that's all!

Most problems we face in life, as I have said already, happen in our minds. Furthermore, problems generally exist in our concept of the past and the future. The past and the future don't exist except in our minds.

Truth is the reality we see when all the illusions and delusions of sin are dispelled by the word of God. To get past all the seductive images of the good life that contemporary society constructs for us with such consummate expertise, to see beyond them to the real truth of things, is liberation ... Truth is personal, and what liberates is the encounter with the reality of things in the person of Jesus who reflects his Father's divinity and models true humanity.