Quotes About Reality

En vérité, on passe son temps à lutter contre la terreur du vivant. On s'invente des définitions pour y échapper : je m'appelle machin, je bosse chez chose, mon métier consiste à faire ci et ça.

El tiempo nos aplasta

acaso no destruimos por la noche el personaje que nos creamos durante el día día y viceversa?

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

That was what university was: thinking you were going to open yourself up to a universe, and meeting nobody.

El enemigo es aquel que, desde el interior, destruye lo que merece la pena. Es el que te muestra la decrepitud contenida en cada realidad. Es aquel que saca a la luz tu bajeza y la de tus amigos. Es aquel que, en un día perfecto, encontrará una excelente razón para que te tortures. Es aquel que te hará sentir asco de ti mismo. Es aquel que, cuando entreveas el rostro celestial de una desconocida, te revelará la muerte contenida en tanta belleza.

Le problème, c'est que ces horreurs puent la vérité.

El agua desalteraba sin alterarse y sin alterar mi sed. Me enseñaba el auténtico infinito, que no es una idea o una noción, sino una experiencia.

El tiempo es una invención del movimiento. Aquel que no se mueve no ve pasar el tiempo.

Ainsi, ils ont des vies de merde avec des boulots de merde, ils vivent dans des endroits horribles avec des personnes épouvantables, et ils poussent l'abjection jusqu'à appeler ça le bonheur.

L'enfant eut le cÅ"ur comprimé de souffrance. Mais à l'intérieur d'elle quelque chose de fort et de clair chuchotait : Moi, je me souviens, moi, je sais que ce n'était pas un rêve, moi, je sais que la déesse est ma mère et moi, je sais qu'elle m'aime comme je l'aime et que cet amour existe.

In actual fact, creatures like Sabine and myself were the guilty ones: rather than approaching their kin and comforting one another, they loved beyond their means - they needed individuals a thousand miles from their own complexes, they needed Christas, radiant and seductive personalities. And then they were astonished that their friendships turned out badly, as though anything like that could possibly work, a panther with a mouse, a shark with a sardine.

Guarda attentamente. La vita è ciò che vedi: membrana, viscere, un buco senza fondo che esige di essere riempito. La vita è questo tubo, flessibile, che ingoia e rimane vuoto.

Tout ce que l'on aime devient une fiction.

Love? Love? Love is not safe, my lady silk, love is dangerous. It is deceitfully sweet like wine from a fresh palm tree at dawn. Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need to count on human strength, and when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

The reality is that we have a weakened energy infrastructure, and anything above a Category 3 hurricane hitting Puerto Rico would be devastating towards that infrastructure.

My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'

Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.