Quotes About Reality

literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth

The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From

If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies...But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Where we are from, he said, stories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change....But in America, people's stories change all the time. In America, it is the man who matters.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

Books are truer than movies.

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

Drodzy s? i widziani we ?nie przyjaciele, Gdy prawdziwych na jawie widzim tak niewiele.

The purity of death holds no attraction for the Homeric Greeks. Their world is one in which the felt, sensed and shared reality, the reality of the human heart, is the only one worth having.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Ä°nsanlar bizi hüsrana uÄŸratarak gerçeklik duygusu kazan?r; hüsran duygusu yaratmad?klar? müddetçe fantezi figürleri olarak kal?rlar.

We have the magic of art that we may not perish of the truth.

On one occasion she (Milner) said to me 'Winnicott really believed, you know, that playing was the only real reality … he thought play, all creativity was sheer magic … that if people can play, anything can happen'. So, I said to her, 'What's wrong with thinking playing is reality, that creativity is magic?' And she said, 'It meant that he believed he could help anyone and everyone, that he was magic because he could play'.

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.

Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic .

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.