Quotes About Reality

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life.

Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

Seen nothing? Idiot! We have all the work and all the worry: children to feed, wounds to tend. Once the war is over, you men are all heroes. The dead: heroes. The survivors: heroes. The maimed: heroes. That's why you invented war. It's your war. You wanted it, so get on with it – heroes, my ass!

Le parole che definiscono i sentimenti sono molto vaghe; è meglio evitare il loro impiego e attenersi alle descrizioni degli oggetti, degli esseri umani e di se stessi, vale a dire alla descrizione fedele dei fatti.

Para decidir si algo está 'bien' o 'mal', tenemos una regla muy sencilla: la redacción debe ser verdadera. Debemos escribir lo que vemos, lo que oímos, lo que hacemos.

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Pour décider si c'est "Bien" ou "Pas bien", nous avons une règle très simple: la composition doit être vraie. Nous devons décrire ce qui est, ce que nous voyons, ce que nous entendons, ce que nous faisons.

Quello che mi interessa sapere è se scrive delle cose vere o delle cose inventate. Le rispondo che cerco di scrivere delle storie vere, ma, a un certo punto, la storia diventa insopportabile proprio per la sua verità e allora sono costretto a cambiarla. Le dico che cerco di raccontare la mia storia, ma che non ci riesco, non ne ho il coraggio, mi fa troppo male. Allora abbellisco tutto e descrivo le cose non come sono accadute, ma come avrei voluto che accadessero.

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente – Ayer

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente.

Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather low artistic mentality never to believe anything you see unless it appears to be real. One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.

Some truths were too ugly to be easily embraced.

No one is a hero at 4:00 a.m.,

To appreciate a certain amount of material comfort," Gideon continued, "does not mean you are not a real person." Phil

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.