Quotes About Reality

À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.

L'argent est du songe pur. Le contempler, c'est faire défiler devant soi l'interminable procession des choses de ce monde.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

She's been afraid for so long that now she can't catch up to the facts: it was already him, and the rest of her family. It really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.

She was a woman who had never been beautiful, but who took care to appear as if she might once have been.

If I don't look in the mirror, I can go around thinking I'm gorgeous when I'm not.

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

If a tourist mecca like Acapulco could fall, then nowhere in Mexico was safe.

Lydia understands that it's not a disguise at all. She and Luca are actual migrants. That is what they are. And that simple fact, among all the other severe new realities of her life, knocks the breath clean out of her lungs. All her life she's pitied those poor people.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Photography is truth.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

So, when people say that after the end of the representation of God there is no God, they remain within metaphysics, which presupposes that there could be something that gives itself as representation. They miss the point.