Quotes About Reality

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

Exercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Has escuchado decir a las personas: «Esta noche no puedo ir a la reunión, pero estaré con ustedes en espíritu»? ¿Saben lo que significa esto? Nada. ¡No vale nada! Mientras estemos en esta tierra, nuestro espíritu solo puede estar donde esté nuestro cuerpo. Si tu cuerpo no está presente, no estás ahí.

I know," Ursula said, "it's like the Emperor's new clothes.

We're dying from the moment we're born

She wanted to be left alone in peace, to disappear into her own quiet world and meditate upon death. Death. Yes, she could form that blunt, obscene word too. But instead she was the one who was going to have to be kind and strong and say that everything was going to be all right (which it clearly was not) and that she had come to terms with it.

But appearance and reality were different things, weren't they?

How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing

He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else.

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was—wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind? Philosophers "came to grips" with this problem a long time ago, Dr.

The world inside his head was so much better than the world outside his head.

I had an idea of him,' Ursula said, 'but the idea wasn't him. Perhaps I wanted to fall in love.

It's a symbol representing the circularity of the universe. Time is a construct, in reality everything flows, no past or present, only the now.

common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

who is to say which of these is real and which a fiction? In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

But then, what constituted real? Wasn't everything, even this life itself, just a game of deception?

There was some kind of celebrity reality show on. She didn't know who any of the "celebrities" were and there didn't seem to be anything real about the predicaments they found themselves in.

Angus had a pretty normal childhood. Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.

Don't let your imagination run away with you..." But why would you not when the reality was so awful?

Not comforting to see pain and death but just to see what she could not let herself imagine and therefore ruled her.

Experience can't be reduced to a 4x6 inch still, her mother says. People stick their loves in cellophane prisons. They incarcerate images. Then they put these cemeteries on coffee tables. They're mockeries.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.